This Past Weekend with Theo Von - A Gun Man ｜ This Past Weekend #273

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00:00:24.840 Today's guest is a man that I met at the gun store.

00:00:28.040 And I went in there recently.

00:00:29.600 I'm going to be very honest with you.

00:00:31.120 And I didn't know what I was doing.

00:00:32.700 But I did know that I wanted to get a gun.

00:00:36.520 And this man had so much information and just knew so much in that realm.

00:00:45.000 In the bulletry.

00:00:46.220 And he's also a gunsmith.

00:00:49.660 He's an outdoorsman.

00:00:51.760 And he is a bonafide gunman.

00:00:55.600 My new friend, Nico Furlon. 1.00

00:00:59.480 You kill me, I'll fucking drink your blood, bro. 1.00

00:01:23.040 Speaking of drinking, man. 1.00

00:01:26.040 So, Nico, yeah, I appreciate you coming in today, man.

00:01:28.960 Of course.

00:01:29.160 And, you know, because you sold me two guns recently.

00:01:32.900 I did, yeah.

00:01:33.500 You know?

00:01:33.820 I did.

00:01:34.060 I sure did.

00:01:34.800 And I was just thinking about it whenever I was at the gun store.

00:01:37.480 Yeah.

00:01:37.720 And what gun store do you work at?

00:01:39.040 Turner's Outdoorsman.

00:01:40.060 We're on Hawthorne Boulevard, North Torrance.

00:01:42.500 And they got everything in there.

00:01:43.740 Everything.

00:01:44.020 We got handguns, revolvers, rifles, shotguns for all your needs.

00:01:48.900 Everything you need.

00:01:49.680 And I noticed, yeah, they have everything.

00:01:52.820 If you want to be a murderer, if you want to be a fisherman, if you want to.

00:01:56.300 They have the full spectrum.

00:01:57.920 You know, you can go out like North Hollywood.

00:02:00.400 You know, the North Hollywood shootout.

00:02:01.580 You can do just like that. 0.99

00:02:02.800 You can shoot deer. 0.91

00:02:04.500 You know what I mean? 0.83

00:02:05.220 You can put your dog down.

00:02:07.060 Whatever you're into.

00:02:07.880 Yeah, you guys can do all of that.

00:02:10.240 Yeah, we had a guy by us, actually, when I was growing up that would put people.

00:02:12.620 He was kind of the guy if you had to put your dog down.

00:02:14.660 Really?

00:02:15.100 Yeah.

00:02:15.360 You would just call him up?

00:02:16.620 Oh, you would call him or you'd just go not.

00:02:18.320 Yeah.

00:02:19.000 Would you expect compensation for that or he would just do it?

00:02:21.760 No, he would just do it.

00:02:22.520 Oh, he just liked it, yeah.

00:02:23.440 Well, no, yeah, he was just the kind of guy.

00:02:24.880 He had done it enough.

00:02:25.900 I think a lot of people were scared.

00:02:27.100 You know, I don't want to put my dog down.

00:02:28.360 I don't know how to do it. 0.88

00:02:29.340 What if I shoot him in the wrong place? 1.00

00:02:30.920 You know, what if I fucking, or what if some people would try to strangle their dog or something? 0.99

00:02:34.420 Like, oh, I can't get him to go down. 0.99

00:02:36.700 My brother put our dog down.

00:02:38.760 Really?

00:02:39.020 Yeah, he didn't even mean to, but he did it.

00:02:40.600 On accident?

00:02:41.620 Kind of.

00:02:42.240 My dog was sick.

00:02:43.040 I had a little chihuahua, you know?

00:02:44.140 Oh, yeah.

00:02:44.560 And he was old and getting sick. 1.00

00:02:45.920 A frisbee would put that fucking thing down. 1.00

00:02:47.820 Oh, yeah, yeah. 1.00

00:02:48.520 I mean, you can drop a biscuit on the floor. 0.99

00:02:50.140 He'll hit him in the head. 0.99

00:02:50.660 He's done. 0.99

00:02:51.160 Yeah, he's done, dude.

00:02:52.140 Like Reginald Denny, man.

00:02:53.300 Back of the head just gone.

00:02:55.480 Just like that.

00:02:56.120 Yeah, but no, he was like, he was sick, you know?

00:02:59.040 And he's a little chihuahua, so he wants to sleep in the bed.

00:03:00.880 He goes under the covers, you know?

00:03:02.120 I think he was too weak, and he's sleeping with my brother in his bed.

00:03:05.520 I don't think he could get out.

00:03:06.680 I think he suffocated, man.

00:03:07.820 Oh, Jesus Christ.

00:03:08.900 Yeah.

00:03:09.220 My brother was not happy.

00:03:10.820 Yeah, it almost reminds me of that movie.

00:03:16.520 I'm trying to think of that movie.

00:03:17.860 Twins, maybe you've seen that movie?

00:03:19.420 Nah, man.

00:03:19.900 It was before your time, I think.

00:03:20.800 Can you bring up that?

00:03:21.380 Twins?

00:03:21.580 Can you bring up something?

00:03:22.320 Twins?

00:03:23.700 All right.

00:03:24.300 Yeah.

00:03:25.340 Yeah, man.

00:03:25.840 It was a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger, though. 1.00

00:03:27.780 Oh, shit. 1.00

00:03:28.340 I think so. 1.00

00:03:28.980 Who was in it?

00:03:29.940 Maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:03:30.560 Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

00:03:32.600 I think when I was born, he was a governor.

00:03:35.780 Yeah, he was.

00:03:36.340 Before that, he was sleeping with his brother.

00:03:38.800 Yeah, there they are. 1.00

00:03:41.140 Damn, man. 1.00

00:03:42.120 But yeah, dude, you sleep with your brother, bro. 1.00

00:03:43.720 Anything could die, you know? 1.00

00:03:45.220 It's a fucking risky game, man. 1.00

00:03:46.640 Oh, yeah. 1.00

00:03:47.000 Well, he's like a, you know, he's a hairy Italian guy, you know? 1.00

00:03:49.960 Yeah. 0.94

00:03:50.160 There's death under there.

00:03:51.120 Yeah.

00:03:51.440 It's great.

00:03:51.900 It's a ghost, man.

00:03:52.540 One of the reasons I wanted to talk today was just because of, like, I ended up buying

00:03:57.160 some guns, you know?

00:03:58.420 Yeah, you sure did.

00:03:58.940 And I didn't know if I even wanted any guns, but once the pandemic hit, once the COVID came

00:04:06.380 in, I was like, I think I need to get some guns.

00:04:08.520 Yeah.

00:04:09.160 And so I came over there to you guys, and yeah, just the whole experience, like, what

00:04:15.840 has the experience been for you, like, working at a gun store?

00:04:18.340 What has it been like since this pandemic hit?

00:04:22.380 Well, I mean, it's completely unprecedented what's going on.

00:04:25.720 I worked there with a lot of guys that have been working in the firearms industry for a

00:04:28.200 long time.

00:04:28.980 Real experienced guys, you know?

00:04:30.420 And they've been selling guns for longer than I've been alive.

00:04:32.660 Oh, dang, man.

00:04:34.220 The store of guns.

00:04:35.200 Oh, yeah.

00:04:35.580 And they tell me the same thing, man.

00:04:36.960 They tell me it's unprecedented.

00:04:39.200 The month of March had more background checks done than any other month in the history of

00:04:44.120 the United States.

00:04:44.920 Wow.

00:04:45.200 March of 2020.

00:04:47.540 When the first kind of panic started going on, we had over, you know, nearly 200 people

00:04:52.060 outside the store waiting to get in before we opened.

00:04:55.000 Four to five-hour lines just for service because we were just full of people.

00:04:58.800 And if you're around L.A., you know there's not that many gun stores.

00:05:02.020 There's a few, a handful just around, especially West L.A.

00:05:05.400 And where we are, you know, kind of like in the epicenter of a bunch of different neighborhoods.

00:05:09.760 So we're by Torrance, Manhattan Beach, Hawthorne, you know, on the way to Gardena.

00:05:14.480 So we're kind of like in that, right in the middle of all that.

00:05:17.400 Right.

00:05:17.640 So kind of white getting Mexican-y. 0.77

00:05:20.120 Oh, it's, I'm going to be honest, man, it's mostly Latino.

00:05:22.520 Yeah.

00:05:22.740 A clientele is mostly Latino, but you get, I mean, I was surprised when I started working

00:05:26.460 there, the diversity of people purchasing firearms.

00:05:30.260 It's all types.

00:05:31.380 And so when you say like, like how, how soon after kind of the pandemic hit or after like,

00:05:36.280 did you notice there was a certain thing that brought people in?

00:05:38.760 It's like, oh, now we got to go get the guns.

00:05:40.580 Like now.

00:05:41.480 A hundred percent.

00:05:43.180 The vast majority of people in there buying guns as of recent have been brand new gun

00:05:47.720 buyers.

00:05:48.420 Never, never bought a gun in their life.

00:05:50.060 Never even expected to buy guns.

00:05:51.320 That's for a lot of them.

00:05:52.520 And it was the first time.

00:05:54.760 And I was talking to a lot of my coworkers.

00:05:56.000 This was the first time that people really started talking about openly in the store,

00:06:00.460 buying these guns and using them in the defense of their property from people willing to take

00:06:05.560 it from them.

00:06:06.200 Wow.

00:06:06.760 A lot of people were like, oh, hey, I want, you know, I want to get a tactical shotgun.

00:06:10.480 And it's like, oh, if you ever ask them, well, what do you plan on doing with it?

00:06:12.580 Oh, you know, I'll just shoot out the range.

00:06:13.600 I like it.

00:06:14.060 And you know, it's a good thing for home defense.

00:06:15.480 Okay.

00:06:15.880 Granted.

00:06:16.800 That was common.

00:06:17.400 But now it's like, oh, I need to get this because what if someone breaks in and they're

00:06:21.300 trying to take my stuff and they were just going off about it.

00:06:23.800 They're talking about, you know, it kind of reminded them of the riots in LA in 92.

00:06:28.860 Some of the old timers talking about the watch riots back in, I believe, the 70s.

00:06:32.220 Yeah.

00:06:32.820 Yeah.

00:06:33.100 Especially living in this area.

00:06:34.140 That's another thing I thought about.

00:06:35.140 I was like, wow, well, I live in an area that has a history of unrest, you know, of civil

00:06:40.100 unrest, if things get, you know, if things get squirreled out really.

00:06:44.120 Oh, yeah.

00:06:44.520 Um, cause that's, cause it's funny.

00:06:46.960 Cause I was even thinking to myself, like, why am I buying a gun?

00:06:49.740 You know, what am I?

00:06:51.880 Um, I mean, I think I'd always kind of wanted to get a gun, but I'd never acted on it.

00:06:57.740 And then suddenly it was like, okay, I'm going to get this gun.

00:07:01.260 Yeah.

00:07:01.820 And, uh, and I think it was just, yeah, I want to be able to take care of myself.

00:07:04.680 I want to be able to, like, if things get real heated, you know, and somebody's coming

00:07:09.900 over, somebody's stealing diapers from me or stealing water or stealing whatever.

00:07:14.220 You know, like.

00:07:15.540 They're coming for that TP, brother.

00:07:16.640 They want that toilet paper, man. 0.98

00:07:17.560 They want, yeah.

00:07:18.200 They're coming for your colored shirt.

00:07:19.820 Yeah.

00:07:20.020 People.

00:07:21.560 But I guess it's, it's, it's funny because of my first, I think my first instinct would

00:07:25.220 be if somebody like really needed help would be to help them.

00:07:27.600 Right.

00:07:27.920 But then if somebody's coming in with the intent, not looking for help.

00:07:30.740 Right.

00:07:31.120 They're there for your stuff.

00:07:32.280 Yeah.

00:07:32.580 They're there for your life, man.

00:07:33.300 Yeah.

00:07:33.680 What were some of the, have you gotten some wild questions from people during this time?

00:07:36.480 Oh my God.

00:07:37.060 You have no idea, man.

00:07:38.120 All types.

00:07:38.580 Um, I mean, you get, you get some, you get all types of weirdos in there, man.

00:07:42.880 I remember one dude was coming in, he was like an older white guy and he was coming

00:07:45.980 in and he was like, uh, he was like, I'm looking for a 45, 70 lever action rifle and 45

00:07:51.320 seventies used to be the standard military cartridge for the U S pretty much right after

00:07:55.700 the civil war.

00:07:57.380 Um, just pretty much until right before world war one.

00:08:00.560 And it's a very powerful, large big bore cartridge.

00:08:03.960 They use it for Buffalo hunting, stuff like that.

00:08:06.700 It's just a very powerful cartridge.

00:08:09.640 And, uh, and, and the general, and the gentleman I was talking to was like, Oh yeah.

00:08:12.660 Why?

00:08:12.860 Like, why are you looking for something like that?

00:08:14.060 You know?

00:08:14.660 And he was like, well, I read that this is a good gun for a riot.

00:08:18.880 I was like, Hmm, what does that mean?

00:08:21.380 Like a good gun for a riot?

00:08:23.700 Like, what are you going to do with it during a riot?

00:08:25.900 And he's just like, Oh, you know, like it's a heavy bullet.

00:08:28.440 So it'll just, it'll just sail through crowds. 0.99

00:08:30.840 I was like, I was like, God damn. 0.99

00:08:33.640 All right. 0.99

00:08:34.060 Like it's a good riot cartridge.

00:08:35.960 And then it's a way to get to the front of the line.

00:08:37.760 Yeah.

00:08:38.220 Hell yeah, man.

00:08:39.000 And, uh, all types.

00:08:39.960 I mean, a lot of people looking for really cheap guns.

00:08:41.740 I need something under $200.

00:08:43.280 It was like, dude, I'm like, I'm gonna sell you a knife, man.

00:08:45.920 I can't get it.

00:08:46.500 Like there's not too many guns.

00:08:47.660 You're gonna sell you a fast knife.

00:08:50.240 You can throw it, man.

00:08:51.320 Yeah.

00:08:51.660 There's your range.

00:08:52.720 And so, but you've gotten a lot of new users in for the first time.

00:08:55.980 Yeah.

00:08:56.360 And where, so what's, what's the gun that you usually recommend for those types of people?

00:09:00.840 Uh, if they're looking for, um, first I got to ask them, are you looking for a rifle?

00:09:04.180 Are you looking for a shotgun?

00:09:05.160 Are you looking for a handgun?

00:09:06.680 Most people can at least answer though, that question.

00:09:09.100 Like what out of those three major categories can, are you looking for?

00:09:12.680 Right.

00:09:13.700 And, and if they're looking for a handgun, I recommend just most polymer frame striker fired

00:09:19.420 pistols, really easy to use like a Glock for an example, Springfield XDs, but we're

00:09:24.240 limited on what we can get here in California.

00:09:26.500 Uh, Smith and Wesson, you know, shield Smith and Wesson SD9.

00:09:31.420 That kind of thing.

00:09:32.580 Those guns are really popular for new gun buyers because they're really, really simple

00:09:35.840 to use and, and they're just effective.

00:09:38.020 They just do the job.

00:09:39.420 That's it.

00:09:39.980 And when you say that, so California has like different laws, like would they have different,

00:09:43.720 we can't get certain types of guns here, you mean, or we can't?

00:09:46.720 Oh yeah.

00:09:47.000 Well, okay.

00:09:48.060 Well, long guns, rifles and shotguns, you're not really limited on, on, on the exact specific

00:09:53.480 guns you can get.

00:09:54.820 They have to be California compliant, which means they have to have a list of features that are

00:09:58.080 not on the gun. 0.99

00:09:58.800 Uh, it's really stupid and convoluted. 0.99

00:10:02.220 And then for, uh, for handguns, there's like, there's something called the California handgun 0.98

00:10:06.300 roster where there's an actual list of, of designated models that you can buy here in

00:10:10.880 California.

00:10:11.400 What that pretty much entails, as far as I understand it is that they pretty much need

00:10:17.000 to pay a lot of money and pass all these safety requirements to get on the roster.

00:10:20.320 Okay.

00:10:20.940 And then for semi-automatic handguns, like one of the guns that you purchase a semi-automatic

00:10:24.880 handgun, they pretty much need to be made after the year 2013, not the actual make, but

00:10:29.960 the design of the gun needs to be from 2013 or before that.

00:10:33.400 The reason for that is the California, uh, pretty much, I believe it was department of

00:10:37.580 justice.

00:10:37.880 They dictated that if you're going to bring a new gun on the roster, a new semi-automatic

00:10:44.020 handgun on the roster, it needs to have micro stamping technology.

00:10:48.040 Okay.

00:10:48.480 That was, I believe those are the words they used.

00:10:50.280 Okay.

00:10:50.720 Micro stamping technology would, would entail where if you fired the bullet, it would leave

00:10:54.620 an imprint on the bullet that would be able to track the gun specifically to that serial

00:10:58.360 number.

00:10:58.680 Right.

00:10:58.900 Okay.

00:10:59.380 That technology does not exist.

00:11:01.880 But will you, now will you see this?

00:11:03.540 I feel like you see a lot of times on like a crime shows and stuff where people use a

00:11:07.000 bullet and they can trace it back to a gun.

00:11:08.900 Yeah.

00:11:09.580 What that would pretty much entail is based on the way the firing pin hits the primer

00:11:13.500 of the cartridge, they can tell what kind of gun it is.

00:11:17.680 Was it a revolver?

00:11:18.960 And maybe they could even tell what specific, what specific actual firearm it is.

00:11:23.260 Oh, that was a, I'm based maybe on the extraction pattern as well.

00:11:26.920 Oh, that was a, that was a Glock 17 for an example, or not even a 17.

00:11:30.440 They can say, Oh, it's a Glock nine millimeter.

00:11:32.420 Okay.

00:11:32.860 That's just one thing they can tell from it.

00:11:34.460 Um, but with micro stamping technology, they pretty much are saying that they can track

00:11:40.240 using the imprint from the firing pin.

00:11:42.260 They can track the actual gun's serial number directly to you, which, which on CSI, it's

00:11:48.280 a fantasy.

00:11:48.720 That's not true.

00:11:49.360 Look that up.

00:11:50.100 Do you mind, Nick?

00:11:52.080 Micro stamping is a process in which a gun imprints a unique microscopic code onto the

00:11:57.300 ammunition it fires.

00:11:58.140 The goal is to enable detectives to collect shell casings at a crime scene, enter the code

00:12:02.340 in a debit database and quickly track the firearm to its owner.

00:12:06.260 Yeah.

00:12:06.340 The problem is the technology is unreliable and expensive.

00:12:09.900 Each time a gun is fired, it wears slightly, leaving a micro stamp unreadable after a short

00:12:14.160 period of normal use.

00:12:15.340 Almost like a regular, like a regular stamp.

00:12:17.060 If you run out of like, I guess the ability maybe to like one of those ink pads or something,

00:12:21.100 then you're done.

00:12:21.900 Huh?

00:12:22.440 And so I guess they're trying to make, so this seemed like an early, this seems like a

00:12:26.680 plan that would make great sense, but they just do not have the technology for it yet.

00:12:31.400 Right.

00:12:31.680 And, and, and nor is it practical in the sense of it actually mitigating crime where, yeah,

00:12:36.960 I mean, if you do have micro stamping technology, you could tell which firearm specifically it

00:12:41.360 was.

00:12:41.600 Right.

00:12:42.140 However, there are certain requirements that consider something a firearm in the United

00:12:46.640 States.

00:12:46.960 Okay.

00:12:47.760 It, and it's typically the frame, also the receiver of a gun.

00:12:51.080 Right.

00:12:51.680 So if you have a Glock pistol, right, which is a very standard pistol, just the plastic

00:12:56.640 frame is the only part on the gun that actually has a serial number.

00:12:59.640 Everything else is just, it's just a metal part.

00:13:01.740 You can order it all online.

00:13:03.000 Right.

00:13:03.340 So I can buy a Glock, buy a firing pin online for $10, replace the firing pin, and it would

00:13:09.840 have a different micro stamp.

00:13:11.120 I see what you're saying.

00:13:11.860 It's very easy to get rid of something.

00:13:13.220 I see what you're saying.

00:13:13.320 And what's to stop someone from just grounding it off?

00:13:15.460 Right.

00:13:15.880 It would do nothing.

00:13:16.960 So this is a bit, so this is something that theoretically would be great, but in reality

00:13:21.880 doesn't, it's not really very practical.

00:13:23.840 Exactly.

00:13:24.480 And this is a law now that you had to have, that you have to have this?

00:13:27.720 Yeah.

00:13:28.120 So new, new handguns from manufacturers to be sold in California, semi-automatic handguns

00:13:33.120 need to have micro stamping technology for them to be approved on the roster.

00:13:36.740 Okay.

00:13:37.080 And the one that I've bought is that.

00:13:41.240 Is, is, is a gun that does not have micro stamping technology because it was being made and

00:13:45.060 sold in California before the year of 2013.

00:13:47.160 Oh, I see.

00:13:47.620 So it was grandfathered in kind of.

00:13:48.980 Kind of.

00:13:49.400 I mean, the gun that you have is brand new.

00:13:51.040 Right.

00:13:51.660 No one used it or anything.

00:13:52.720 It's just that that specific model was allowed because they were making and selling that model

00:13:58.100 to California.

00:14:00.100 They were, they were selling that model here in California before the year of 2013.

00:14:03.440 So of the new like gun owners that you're seeing, like people that have come to the

00:14:07.620 shop recently, who are they?

00:14:08.880 Like, what do they look like?

00:14:10.000 What are they?

00:14:10.440 I mean, you said it was a lot of Latinos out there.

00:14:12.500 And is it a lot of gangsters?

00:14:13.820 Is it a lot of females? 1.00

00:14:15.100 What is it?

00:14:15.820 You know?

00:14:16.580 Abuelos?

00:14:17.040 At our, oh, all types, man.

00:14:18.660 At our shop, we get, we get a lot of gangsters.

00:14:20.740 Gangsters of all kinds. 0.95

00:14:21.620 I mean, I've seen like dudes that are borderline, like white nationalists. 0.99

00:14:26.300 Yeah.

00:14:26.660 Yeah.

00:14:26.740 Straight up.

00:14:27.300 Like straight up.

00:14:28.240 Cholos. 0.99

00:14:28.780 Nick got all excited.

00:14:29.580 Yeah.

00:14:29.860 Calm down, Nick.

00:14:31.080 Sorry. 0.97

00:14:31.440 Just straight, like just black gangsters, like blood scripts, that kind of stuff. 1.00

00:14:36.660 And, uh, and yeah, they don't, I mean, a lot of times they don't even hide it.

00:14:39.720 Like I got.

00:14:40.020 And what about Jews?

00:14:40.700 Do you see any Jews in there?

00:14:42.100 A few, not too many.

00:14:43.600 I feel like, I feel like, I don't know.

00:14:45.260 I feel like.

00:14:45.420 There's a lot of Jewish supremacists now. 1.00

00:14:47.300 Like people that are devout Judaism only type of shit. 1.00

00:14:50.040 Yeah. 1.00

00:14:50.460 Zionist, you know? 0.98

00:14:51.040 Yeah.

00:14:51.240 Yeah.

00:14:51.440 Yeah.

00:14:51.500 Right.

00:14:52.220 I feel like, I feel like they have their own way of getting guns.

00:14:54.740 We sell Jewish guns.

00:14:55.760 We got some like stuff from Israel there, which is kind of cool.

00:14:57.860 Wow.

00:14:58.260 Yeah.

00:14:58.600 I mean, Israel makes a lot of weapons, man.

00:15:00.580 Yeah.

00:15:01.020 I mean, it's a weapon belt over there.

00:15:02.620 Hell yeah.

00:15:03.260 Hell yeah.

00:15:03.480 You got to.

00:15:04.160 Technology and weapons, man.

00:15:05.300 Yeah.

00:15:05.620 Well, they're surrounded by their enemies, you know?

00:15:07.820 Yeah.

00:15:07.980 It's a hot area.

00:15:08.760 It's a good area to have a weapon.

00:15:10.480 Yeah.

00:15:10.740 Hell yeah.

00:15:11.540 So, so, so go ahead.

00:15:12.680 You're seeing, you're seeing a lot of Latinos.

00:15:14.380 You're seeing a lot of gang.

00:15:15.100 Is it a lot of gang bangers?

00:15:16.260 Is it a lot of step moms? 1.00

00:15:17.440 Not a lot.

00:15:18.660 You get, you get that occasionally.

00:15:20.320 It's just a lot of just really random people, man.

00:15:22.460 Whether it's like people my age, you know, just first time gun buyers, 21 years old, single

00:15:27.600 women, women with kids. 1.00

00:15:29.900 And are they expressing fears about the pandemic?

00:15:32.360 Like about the, okay.

00:15:33.960 A hundred percent.

00:15:34.520 They're, they're there.

00:15:35.240 They're there telling, telling us like, I don't know what to get.

00:15:38.660 I don't know anything about guns.

00:15:39.940 I don't even really want to know anything about guns.

00:15:42.280 I just want to get one.

00:15:43.620 That was me really.

00:15:44.960 Yeah.

00:15:45.460 Kind of.

00:15:45.800 I mean, I had, I knew I wanted a handgun.

00:15:47.640 I looked through some guns and kind of picked out the one that I wanted.

00:15:50.660 Exactly.

00:15:51.400 But I don't think you were there entirely out of, out of fear, man.

00:15:54.480 And they were, a lot of people were there really just like looking around and they, they just

00:15:58.200 kind of, they just kind of were freaking me out to be honest with you, man.

00:16:00.540 And is there an element where you have to like, if somebody's too, you, you determine

00:16:05.240 that they have too much fear.

00:16:06.520 Is that, can you, do you still have to sell them a gun?

00:16:09.620 I wouldn't say I have to, but.

00:16:12.240 Cause that's a scary person to sell a gun to.

00:16:14.020 You know what I'm saying?

00:16:14.380 Like, if I'm coming from a place of like, just complete fear, then I could, I could make

00:16:19.180 some poor choices, you know?

00:16:20.440 A hundred percent. 0.99

00:16:21.760 You don't want to fucking shoot a guy and he just had the mail. 0.99

00:16:24.440 Yeah, no, for sure. 0.97

00:16:25.280 But that's, that's where it gets tricky because you also don't want to deprave someone of their

00:16:28.900 second amendment right.

00:16:30.060 Especially when there's a limited amount of gun stores and it's hard for them to get in.

00:16:33.300 I mean, a lot of people were waiting for five hours for service and they want to get

00:16:36.860 a gun and, and, and despite the reasons, I mean, out of fear, that's not necessarily

00:16:40.540 a reason where I can take away their constitutional right.

00:16:43.000 That's what I see.

00:16:43.920 Right.

00:16:44.080 So yeah.

00:16:44.420 So there's no, so there's nothing in it like where you make any sort of like psychological

00:16:48.720 like mental health evaluation of them.

00:16:53.720 We have the freedom to.

00:16:54.900 Okay.

00:16:55.260 We can.

00:16:56.000 And like another thing, like by requirement, if you smell like marijuana, I can't serve you.

00:17:00.180 Wow.

00:17:00.660 Literally.

00:17:00.900 And I've, and I've had to tell like, I mean, man, I have some stories of these gangsters that

00:17:04.200 come in all the time, man, or just anyone.

00:17:05.980 I mean, people that smell like weed, but just like usually people that walk into a 0.99

00:17:08.500 gun store, some real fucking cholos. 1.00

00:17:09.840 I know you're talking about, they sit in their infinity, you know, and they're smoking a 0.99

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00:17:16.060 let's go buy guns. 0.96

00:17:16.900 Now we're talking Persian.

00:17:18.340 Yeah.

00:17:18.780 Yeah. 1.00

00:17:19.240 And what the fuck? 0.99

00:17:19.980 And do they, a lot of times think of them to be able to get it day of? 0.99

00:17:22.740 Oh, oh my, most people, not most, but a lot of people were getting upset at us.

00:17:26.300 Cause they were like, it's a 10 day waiting period in California.

00:17:28.600 So if you start the background check that day, right.

00:17:32.300 Then 10 days from now you can come pick it up.

00:17:34.280 Right.

00:17:34.600 Right.

00:17:34.820 That's what I'm going through right now.

00:17:35.980 It just got extended to, it just got, uh, as of recent, they've been extended a little

00:17:40.000 bit.

00:17:40.220 The DOJ pretty much sent out a notification to us that they're completely backed up on

00:17:44.860 background checks going through.

00:17:45.940 So even after the 10 day waiting period, the background check might not have cleared yet.

00:17:49.880 So we've had, I mean, this weekend, probably over 40 people come pick up their guns and

00:17:54.600 we had to deny them that access to pick up their firearm, even if it was after their

00:17:59.180 10 day waiting period, just due to the fact that they cannot, the DOJ has not cleared

00:18:04.220 their, their background check yet.

00:18:05.340 Wow.

00:18:05.740 Yeah.

00:18:06.360 It's just pending.

00:18:07.120 And I checked it for you because pick your pickup date was yesterday.

00:18:10.100 Yeah.

00:18:10.400 You're going through the same thing.

00:18:11.400 If you came in yesterday to get your firearms, which it would have been after the 10 day waiting

00:18:15.260 period, you would not have been able to.

00:18:16.900 And now has that ever happened in your line?

00:18:19.060 Like in your period, time of work?

00:18:22.340 No one I talked to there has ever seen that ever.

00:18:26.920 And so what do you attribute that to?

00:18:29.360 Just the sheer amount of people that are buying guns in the United States and California.

00:18:33.760 So maybe it's good.

00:18:34.700 At least it's like, okay, we have to run some sort of a background check.

00:18:37.520 We're not just filtering all of these people through.

00:18:40.120 Yeah.

00:18:40.400 Yeah.

00:18:40.580 I mean, especially in California, I mean, that, that background check process is California

00:18:44.260 and there's other states to do backgrounds.

00:18:46.240 There's a national background check system, right?

00:18:48.960 When you fill out paperwork and that's what you did.

00:18:50.960 Right.

00:18:51.720 And that national background check system doesn't necessarily mean a 10 day waiting period.

00:18:56.540 There's a lot of other states where you can buy a day of and take it home.

00:18:58.900 Really?

00:18:59.340 Yeah.

00:18:59.860 California is one of, one of the only, not one of the only, but there's a few states that

00:19:03.420 have a waiting period.

00:19:04.780 Day of you can buy?

00:19:05.960 Oh yeah.

00:19:06.380 Yeah.

00:19:06.580 I mean, Arizona, Utah, you go buy a day of, fill out the paperwork, take it home.

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00:24:28.740 But that seems wild because if you, like, do you prefer that there is a, that there's a waiting period?

00:24:36.340 It seems like there needs, there definitely should be a, because what if I'm just pissed about something?

00:24:40.860 Right. 0.96

00:24:41.040 What if I am fucking hot? 0.99

00:24:41.940 What if I'm coked up? 0.99

00:24:42.820 What if I'm this or that, you know? 1.00

00:24:44.380 I'm all on DMT and I want to go fucking, you know, I want to go deep and shoot the devil, you know? 0.99

00:24:49.300 Does California have one of the longest ones? 1.00

00:24:50.820 Is 10-day one of the longest ones?

00:24:51.460 I believe 10-day is the longest one.

00:24:53.220 Yeah.

00:24:53.420 I believe we do have the longest one.

00:24:54.560 I'm not 100% on that, but I'm 99% sure.

00:24:58.840 Yeah, and it's a pretty, it's just a pretty, obviously, it's a, California's a pretty liberal state, you know?

00:25:02.300 I mean, certainly Los Angeles area is.

00:25:04.260 And so I was, like, really shocked when, when it was hard to get in over at you guys' place.

00:25:10.120 You know, there was just such a, there was, like, a waiting period to get in, you know?

00:25:12.300 It's just, and then they had just made a law or passed some sort of ruling that you guys weren't even going to be allowed to sell guns anymore.

00:25:20.220 Yeah, the, the governor, Gavin Newsom, extremely anti-gun, and the sheriff of Los Angeles County, at one point both declared that, that gun stores should be closed down and that they're not essential.

00:25:32.580 That's because they were pretty much seeing the giant rush on gun stores.

00:25:36.880 However, I believe they were flooded with a bunch of lawsuits, like constitutional lawsuits, like, oh, well, that's, you know, trumping our Second Amendment, right?

00:25:45.280 So then they actually just pulled off on it.

00:25:47.380 So, and some counties, they have stopped them.

00:25:50.240 I know our, I know the Turner's location in Oxnard, they were, they were shut down by the, by the police there because, by the, by the sheriff there because of their orders for their county.

00:26:02.420 But LA County is not one of those counties, surprisingly.

00:26:06.000 Does it, does it worry you, like, that there's going to be a lot more guns, like, flooding, like, even just driving around? 1.00

00:26:11.080 Are you thinking, like, oh, shit, now there's a lot more fucktards with guns? 1.00

00:26:14.560 Like, do you think about that at all? 1.00

00:26:15.940 Yeah, I mean, I've thought, I've thought about it.

00:26:17.900 Not much I can do about it, man.

00:26:19.540 That's always been, that's always been a part of American life, man.

00:26:23.500 There's always been firearms.

00:26:24.980 They've always been here since the, since the Big Bang Theory.

00:26:26.560 Well, the Big Bang Theory, if you think about that, I mean, America started with a, you know, I mean, or the world started with chaos. 0.98

00:26:33.060 Yeah, a fucking, somebody setting it off, you know. 0.98

00:26:35.920 A hundred percent, yeah. 1.00

00:26:37.180 It would have been God just shooting.

00:26:39.540 Yeah.

00:26:40.320 Turning the universe, man.

00:26:41.320 Yeah, dude, somebody just, yeah, the pin hitting the frickin' firing pin in the primer, there it is.

00:26:46.320 Boom.

00:26:46.740 After that, man, it's just chaos from there.

00:26:48.220 See, you can't be shocked if somebody else wants to do it.

00:26:50.480 No, I don't know, I can't be shocked at all. 0.98

00:26:51.720 If somebody wants to Big Bang at somebody fucking running through the yard at night. 0.95

00:26:54.440 And if you ever shot a gun, man, I mean, a lot of people that are there, anti-gun, have never fired a weapon. 0.98

00:26:58.880 Yeah.

00:26:59.180 It's exhilarating.

00:27:00.200 It's a lot of fun.

00:27:01.080 It captures, it captures your kind of, the kind of visceral need for, for destruction in a way.

00:27:07.080 Well, I've said this before, and, you know, I had a buddy who said that he killed, he killed someone.

00:27:12.900 Yeah.

00:27:13.120 And he said that, he said it was, he said it was awesome.

00:27:19.520 Oh, yeah.

00:27:19.900 You know, and I'm not saying, I don't condone what he said.

00:27:22.060 Oh, yeah.

00:27:22.900 And I'm not saying he should have done it or any shit like that, but he did, I trust some of his belief, you know, it's not his belief, but I trust some of his, I trust his own evaluation of what occurred. 0.58

00:27:33.280 Oh, yeah. 0.74

00:27:33.660 Yeah, I got a lot of buddies in the military, man, and they haven't seen any combat yet, and they're just training, and, you know, they're all, a lot of them are infantrymen, and they're getting into it, you know, but they tell me about it, and they're my age, and all they want to do is go fight.

00:27:48.640 All they want to do is go fight, and, I mean, I can't say I don't understand it.

00:27:52.060 It's a, people, you know, people my age, young men for the history of the human race, man, have been wanting to go to war.

00:28:01.460 Yeah.

00:28:01.640 Yeah, there's something about, I was talking about this last week on the podcast, that there's something about us that has, like, a thing of, like, anarchy, that I noticed, like, this pandemic starts to, like, it starts to light that fuse a little bit.

00:28:16.460 Oh, yeah.

00:28:16.840 Like, what if we all got to go back to the Wild West days, you know, like, what if, you know, suddenly, like, the services in society that we're in, it starts to break down.

00:28:26.580 Yeah.

00:28:26.740 I think there are some people who not only would like to have that, a little bit of that Grand Theft Auto type of lifestyle, but then also some people who want to just be prepared for it.

00:28:36.220 Oh, yeah.

00:28:36.580 Like, you don't want to show up, you know, you don't want to show up really late to saving yourself, you know, and being prepared. 0.98

00:28:45.640 Because once shit hits the fan, you're not going to be able to get a gun, there won't be gun stores open, you know what I'm saying? 0.83

00:28:50.500 Like, if things get really bad, like, things aren't going to be open, it's not going to be available. 0.99

00:28:54.940 You're not going to be able to go to your neighbor, like, hey, give me a gun.

00:28:57.260 They're like, nah, I'm going to shoot you so I can run the building.

00:29:02.080 Yeah, I mean, that's why my whole family lives on one block, you know what I mean? 1.00

00:29:05.800 Yeah, that's fucking pretty savage. 0.95

00:29:06.840 There's a lot of firepower right there, you know, centrally located. 0.99

00:29:10.140 Yeah.

00:29:10.460 But no, man, yeah, 100%.

00:29:12.940 I mean, you have a lot of people that kind of have that hunger for chaos, you know?

00:29:17.200 It's just the way it is.

00:29:18.700 I mean, look at the U.S. today.

00:29:20.540 It's so, everything, I mean, it's so complicated.

00:29:22.800 Our lives, it's all social media and all going to work on time and all that, and I feel like people are getting kind of sick of it, and eventually they just kind of want to, they kind of just want that chaos to boil over, man.

00:29:33.040 It just gives them a little bit of time of relief, I guess.

00:29:35.880 Oh, yeah.

00:29:36.180 A lot of human beings that wants some sort of chaos, and then if they don't, at least wants to be prepared for it, at least recognizes that it's in other people.

00:29:49.400 I mean, even if you look back in the Bible, man, which is, you know, I mean, it's a hit or miss book, but if you, like Cain and Abel, they had four people in the world, and one of them killed the other one.

00:29:59.900 You know what I'm saying?

00:30:00.700 Yeah. 0.99

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00:30:04.300 But, dude, at that point, when you think about that, there's four people. 0.98

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00:30:16.960 Hell yeah. 1.00

00:30:17.220 Okay? 1.00

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00:30:18.840 Yeah. 1.00

00:30:19.520 Abel murdered Cain.

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00:30:28.360 Cain murdered Cain.

00:30:28.920 Yes, sir.

00:30:29.460 Yeah, that's what I thought.

00:30:30.340 Because yes, we Cain, I remember seeing those bumper stickers growing up.

00:30:32.800 Yes, we Cain?

00:30:33.720 Yeah.

00:30:34.160 Like, if your brother gets out of line, yes, we Cain.

00:30:36.100 Yes, we Cain.

00:30:38.160 But so, yeah, I just think there's inherently, there's something in us that makes us want to

00:30:41.420 act out. 0.98

00:30:42.160 And so when this shit starts to happen, you get people, it lights that fuse, it lights 0.99

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00:30:50.240 Yeah.

00:30:50.440 How am I going to protect my family?

00:30:53.260 Um, definitely, man.

00:30:54.840 And if you think about it, like what time in history in the U.S. captures people's imagination

00:30:59.220 more than anything else is the Wild West.

00:31:00.840 Yeah.

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00:31:07.660 You know, you see someone out there, take his stuff, kill his horse.

00:31:10.400 You know what I mean?

00:31:10.940 Well, that, see, the third part I don't like as much.

00:31:12.860 Oh, yeah.

00:31:13.440 The first two I could definitely, I would sit on a trial for.

00:31:16.340 Right, yeah.

00:31:16.620 The third one, I'd be like. 0.99

00:31:17.620 Killing a horse.

00:31:18.240 The third one, I'm like, I'm not even signing up for this.

00:31:20.100 This guy's guilty.

00:31:20.840 What if you're hungry, man? 1.00

00:31:21.900 You gotta eat that shit. 1.00

00:31:22.860 Well, if you're hungry, man, I think, if you're real hungry, dude, yeah. 1.00

00:31:27.180 Look, I've told you before, I'd eat a neighbor, I'd eat somebody.

00:31:29.980 Right, yeah, yeah.

00:31:30.100 I'm not afraid.

00:31:30.860 No, for sure. 0.99

00:31:31.420 I've eaten rare shit, I'll have a little more. 0.99

00:31:33.260 Yeah, definitely. 0.99

00:31:33.980 So I'm not afraid to go down that, you know, that, uh, that kind of, you know, pallet path. 0.99

00:31:39.160 You know, I'm not afraid to fucking eat somebody. 0.99

00:31:40.980 You almost ate Ben, the young Viet. 1.00

00:31:42.680 Yeah, I almost ate a bit into a fucking Vietnamese guy at a damn Best Buy. 1.00

00:31:46.200 And that was just when I was fasting. 1.00

00:31:47.780 Right, yeah.

00:31:48.360 That was forced starvation. 0.99

00:31:49.560 If you're talking about real starvation, bro, because you gotta think, if shit goes 0.99

00:31:53.720 weird, you're in an apartment building. 0.92

00:31:56.820 Immediately, it's like, okay, things are gonna get weird quick.

00:32:00.580 Like, if society started to break down, right, nobody's been picking up trash.

00:32:05.440 No.

00:32:05.720 So you have no trash pickup, right?

00:32:07.200 So everything is gonna start to stink.

00:32:08.740 Everything's, nobody's, uh, who knows if clean water plants and that sort of stuff

00:32:14.180 are starting to work.

00:32:14.760 Do you have fresh water?

00:32:15.580 Do you have water at home?

00:32:16.420 Right.

00:32:16.700 So people are gonna be on edge.

00:32:19.540 Oh, yeah.

00:32:19.860 On edge.

00:32:20.480 Oh, yeah. 0.91

00:32:20.800 So suddenly, like, shitting your apartment building is gonna start to become, like, a little

00:32:24.640 bit of, I don't think everybody's like, hey, let's be on the same team and team up together. 0.91

00:32:27.540 No, no, no, no, it's definitely not, man.

00:32:29.840 I mean, I was just, uh, I just came back from the Philippines, man.

00:32:32.820 And over there, you can see how people are.

00:32:34.760 They're, they're really community oriented.

00:32:36.500 Everyone kind of sees each other like a big family.

00:32:38.780 That's the way I felt when I was over there.

00:32:40.220 But over here, man, it's, it's dog eat dog.

00:32:42.220 You know?

00:32:42.560 That's how I feel.

00:32:43.320 I, I feel like you'll have a lot of people that are trying to, like, work together.

00:32:46.380 But, you know, Americans can, can be selfish.

00:32:49.220 You know, they're, they're looking out for themselves.

00:32:50.680 Especially in a city.

00:32:51.620 I think in a city, you're, you're dealing with that.

00:32:53.660 Like, I think if once I got out to like a, more of a rural environment or something,

00:32:58.160 and you have a bit of land, you have some space where you can see, okay,

00:33:01.640 if there's people out on the Ponderosa or what's going on,

00:33:04.200 you have animals that are around that you could trust to go out and get a little bit of light intel

00:33:07.560 and show back up at the house.

00:33:09.400 You know what I'm saying, though?

00:33:10.180 Like, you have real.

00:33:11.140 Recon cow.

00:33:11.800 Yeah.

00:33:12.100 Yeah, I get you. 1.00

00:33:12.680 You have a fucking cow that could recon out there and then shake that bell if shit's fucking getting wiry. 1.00

00:33:17.080 Just put a GoPro on them, man. 1.00

00:33:18.620 Just tell them to come back.

00:33:19.840 You watch it. 1.00

00:33:20.880 Like, oh, I knew those motherfuckers were out there, man. 1.00

00:33:22.640 God damn it. 1.00

00:33:23.660 But I'm saying you could send a little shepherd, you know, 0.99

00:33:26.020 you could send a little German shepherd out there or a British shepherd or anything.

00:33:29.180 You could do whatever you want, man.

00:33:30.580 I'm just, yeah, it's a, but I don't think I want to be the guy sitting on my porch without a weapon.

00:33:37.240 Yeah, I mean, you definitely don't want to be the guy that's unarmed in that situation, right?

00:33:40.380 I mean, without a weapon, you're, I mean, I don't think anything's going to get that bad.

00:33:44.060 Hopefully not.

00:33:44.740 I mean, things are looking better already.

00:33:46.260 Right. 0.99

00:33:46.600 But if shit goes down the drain, you do not want to be the guy that's unarmed. 0.99

00:33:50.760 It's like, it's like being in, it's like you're being in prison and you're not like one of those like racial gangs yet. 0.99

00:33:55.580 Yeah.

00:33:55.860 You know what I mean? 0.99

00:33:56.260 It's like showing up in prison without a butthole. 0.99

00:33:58.240 Literally, yeah. 0.99

00:33:59.040 Yeah.

00:33:59.220 It's like, I mean, what are you offering then?

00:34:01.000 Yeah. 0.98

00:34:01.280 If you don't got a butthole, what are you doing? 0.99

00:34:02.560 Right. 0.99

00:34:02.880 Well, it's like, how are you going to, when everybody else has, you don't want to be the guy without a butthole. 0.99

00:34:08.940 Because you're not going to fucking last very long. 0.99

00:34:10.800 You know what I'm saying? 0.99

00:34:11.760 Do you guys have weapons?

00:34:12.800 Nick, Gianni, you guys have weapons or no?

00:34:14.800 I just bought a gun, but my older brother has a gun.

00:34:17.640 My dad has like six guns, so.

00:34:19.500 But your dad doesn't live here, does he?

00:34:20.880 No.

00:34:21.280 Okay, so that's out of the picture.

00:34:22.360 So you have one gun between you and your brother.

00:34:24.020 But I bought a shotgun and I bought a 9mm.

00:34:27.060 Okay.

00:34:27.340 There it is.

00:34:29.080 Nick?

00:34:29.360 I have no guns, but I want to, but it sounds like a hassle.

00:34:33.460 I know it's not that big of a deal.

00:34:34.540 You just have to go twice, but I don't know.

00:34:36.720 Yeah, no, man.

00:34:38.100 We'll help you out, brother.

00:34:38.820 We got options.

00:34:39.380 Word, word, word.

00:34:39.740 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:34:40.260 We got you, man.

00:34:42.660 And then I wonder if, but at a certain point, do you worry that they would shut down the gun stores?

00:34:48.580 Yeah, I'm not too worried about that.

00:34:51.200 I'm ready to rock and roll.

00:34:53.320 Have you had people come to buy a weapon and you're like, and you knew that they were going to use it for a crime?

00:35:00.660 Oh, yeah.

00:35:01.260 I got a few good stories like that.

00:35:02.960 Sometimes you get those precarious characters in, you know?

00:35:05.340 Oh, yeah, definitely.

00:35:05.960 And they come in like, hey, man, I'm looking for a pocket 9mm.

00:35:10.900 I'm like, oh, okay.

00:35:11.660 And we do sell small, you know, concealable handguns.

00:35:14.760 And they're like, oh, okay, yeah, let me see that.

00:35:16.340 And then they don't want to know about the specs. 0.99

00:35:17.600 They don't give a shit about it. 0.99

00:35:18.560 They don't care about anything about the gun. 0.99

00:35:19.800 They're just like, oh, yeah, let me see that.

00:35:21.240 And they kind of hold it.

00:35:22.540 And then they're like, they just put it in their pocket.

00:35:24.200 I'm just like, and I'm just like, I'm like, hey, man, like, can you not put it in your pocket?

00:35:27.440 He's just like, hey, I'm just seeing, like, if it fits.

00:35:29.860 And I'm like, oh, okay.

00:35:31.140 And then, like, I saw a dude one time, he put it in his pocket, and he pulls it out and

00:35:34.100 draws it, like, on the table, right at my chest.

00:35:36.000 Yeah.

00:35:36.420 He's just like that.

00:35:37.060 And I'm like, and I'm just like, all right.

00:35:38.960 I mean, we got guns pointed at us all day over there.

00:35:40.520 Right, I pointed at you on accident a couple times, remember?

00:35:42.340 Yeah, it's okay, man.

00:35:43.120 Listen, I've had, I mean, we have time for people pointing shotguns, 12-gauge shotguns

00:35:47.360 right there, eye level.

00:35:48.620 Yeah.

00:35:48.940 Like, at the counter.

00:35:50.220 You guys are like, call me the N-word.

00:35:51.460 And you're like, no, I'm not doing it, dude.

00:35:53.120 I'm not doing it, bro.

00:35:54.820 Oh, man.

00:35:55.040 They're like, pretend you work at a bank, and you're like, uh, what do you want to do?

00:35:59.060 Oh, dude, man, when I was, like, 18, I worked at Big Five, you know?

00:36:03.060 And I was there, and we sell BB guns at Big Five, BB handguns.

00:36:06.580 And they look real, you know?

00:36:07.980 And I remember these two brothers came in, and they came in there, and they're looking,

00:36:11.380 and they're, you know, they smell like weed, and they're like, oh, yeah, man, I'm looking

00:36:14.120 for that handgun right there. 1.00

00:36:15.000 That shit looked real. 1.00

00:36:15.820 I'm like, okay. 0.99

00:36:16.520 So I show it to them, and they're there.

00:36:18.120 He's just looking at it.

00:36:18.740 He's like, yeah, man, this will do the job.

00:36:20.620 And I'm just like, oh, you guys, like, what are you guys doing with it?

00:36:22.660 And he's just like, oh, nothing, you know?

00:36:24.220 And then, like, as a joke, he points it at his friend in his head.

00:36:27.040 He yells at him, like, in the store.

00:36:28.120 Everyone turns around and looks. 1.00

00:36:28.960 He's like, he's like, run me them shoes, motherfucker! 1.00

00:36:31.300 And he's, like, screaming at his friend. 1.00

00:36:33.380 I was like, oh, shit, man. 1.00

00:36:34.500 And, like, these guys are, like, just your use of BB guns. 1.00

00:36:36.300 Like role-playing kind of.

00:36:37.000 Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:36:37.680 But they're like, oh, yeah, that's the work.

00:36:39.120 They bought it.

00:36:39.660 It was, like, 90 bucks, you know? 1.00

00:36:40.880 Damn. 1.00

00:36:41.260 Fake handgun. 1.00

00:36:42.700 So, yeah, so there's people coming in.

00:36:45.920 If you had somebody come in, and you knew, have you ever had somebody straight up tell

00:36:50.280 you, like, don't sell me a gun because I'm going to kill somebody?

00:36:52.900 No, but, I mean, you know, we have to ask those questions.

00:36:55.040 Like, I asked you, Theo, like, hey, man, you ever, you know, there's four questions

00:36:59.300 that you have to ask, and then you have the whole list, you know?

00:37:01.540 When they're filling out the paperwork, and they're asking if you're a convicted felon,

00:37:04.660 they're like, hmm.

00:37:06.380 And, like, I see people, like, struggle on it.

00:37:07.880 They're like, what if I was convicted, but it wasn't, like, a violent felony?

00:37:13.980 And I'm just like, yeah, I can't do that.

00:37:15.720 I just kind of take the paperwork.

00:37:16.680 I'm like, yeah, sorry.

00:37:17.920 Like, if you've been convicted of a felony, unless it's been completely, like, acquitted,

00:37:21.500 you know, unless you've been completely, like, found non-guilty of the crime,

00:37:23.880 like, you haven't been convicted, then if you, I mean, if you're a convicted felon,

00:37:28.360 we can't sell you a gun for the rest of your life.

00:37:29.580 Ever for the rest of your life.

00:37:30.460 Rest of your life.

00:37:31.160 Yeah.

00:37:31.260 Cannot do it.

00:37:32.220 Yeah, the test was pretty tricky, I remember.

00:37:34.600 Can you bring up that test, Nate?

00:37:35.840 I could not find it.

00:37:37.260 Okay.

00:37:37.680 California FSC test.

00:37:40.700 Firearm safety certificate.

00:37:41.720 How many did you get wrong, Theo?

00:37:42.740 Do you remember?

00:37:43.760 I think I got three wrong.

00:37:45.200 I found this on the web.

00:37:46.120 He got three wrong.

00:37:46.980 Me too.

00:37:47.540 27 out of 30.

00:37:48.580 Yeah.

00:37:49.400 It took me longer than most people to take the test, I feel like.

00:37:52.380 It took you a while, man, but you're making jokes while you were doing it, too, man. 0.99

00:37:55.900 I remember everyone was laughing when you were taking the test, but you were saying some funny shit. 0.96

00:37:59.320 Well, I was trying to sneakily get information out of people, too. 0.98

00:38:01.600 I was trying to start a little conversation, then see if somebody would drop a little hint

00:38:05.040 of intel, because some of the questions were a little bit tough, I felt like.

00:38:09.520 It took me about 40 minutes to take it.

00:38:11.000 That would probably look like a study guide.

00:38:13.120 You can take a practice test, like California FSC practice test, and they'll have some

00:38:17.460 of the questions on there.

00:38:21.200 It's funny, because people get the same ones wrong all the time.

00:38:23.700 It's always the same questions that they get wrong.

00:38:25.280 Yeah.

00:38:26.080 It was, some of it was tough for me, the age at which you can buy a firearm.

00:38:31.200 Yeah.

00:38:31.760 Yeah.

00:38:32.020 It's 21 for long guns and handguns in California.

00:38:34.500 It used to be 18 for long guns, 21 for handguns.

00:38:36.800 They changed that, I believe, 2019, January 1st, 2019.

00:38:41.900 And here's a question right here.

00:38:42.900 Is it legal to store a loaded firearm in the premises where children have access to?

00:38:47.620 No.

00:38:48.040 No, it's not.

00:38:48.880 Yeah.

00:38:50.300 Let's see, have Theo take it.

00:38:52.260 Oh, yeah, for sure.

00:38:52.980 Definitely.

00:38:54.560 What is not a part of a cartridge or a shotgun shell?

00:38:58.480 I'm going to go with the choke.

00:39:04.840 What types of sight do the handgun shooters use? 1.00

00:39:09.200 That's a dumb question. 0.99

00:39:10.540 Yeah. 1.00

00:39:10.680 That's a really dumb question. 0.98

00:39:11.700 I would say A, all of the above, I mean, D. 0.98

00:39:17.360 A sale or transfer of a firearm between two private parties must be completed through a licensed firearms

00:39:21.820 dealer only if the buyer and seller do not personally know each other.

00:39:25.140 That is false.

00:39:26.680 It must be completed between a licensed dealer no matter what.

00:39:29.480 Exactly.

00:39:29.600 That's the one I got wrong.

00:39:30.660 Yeah.

00:39:30.840 I didn't know that.

00:39:31.780 That's the one most people get wrong during the FSC.

00:39:34.260 So if I want to sell a friend a gun, I want to sell Gianni or Nick a gun, I have to go

00:39:38.360 through a licensed dealer.

00:39:39.780 Come by to us or any other gun store.

00:39:42.040 Tell them you want to do a private party transfer.

00:39:43.820 They're going to charge you a small fee.

00:39:45.520 We pretty much get both of you guys' information.

00:39:48.760 The gun is then legally transferred over to the person that you're selling it to.

00:39:52.380 The money doesn't go through us or anything like that.

00:39:54.200 We just collect our small fee.

00:39:55.320 The money is all handled outside of the store.

00:39:58.160 Within 10 days, the buyer can come pick it up and that's it.

00:40:01.300 Just like a normal process.

00:40:02.240 We just hold onto the gun for 10 days.

00:40:03.380 They come pick it up.

00:40:04.300 And if I sell it to Gianni just without going through a licensed dealer, then there's a felony.

00:40:09.920 Wow. 0.99

00:40:10.780 Damn. 1.00

00:40:11.280 Yeah. 0.99

00:40:12.420 Is that just in California or is that everywhere?

00:40:14.080 Some states do not have, there's no need for a background check for a private party.

00:40:19.740 So I believe Texas is one of those states.

00:40:21.160 I mean, you'll have like videos of people buying guns in like a McDonald's bathroom.

00:40:24.960 You know what I mean?

00:40:25.220 They're like, hey, let's meet up. 1.00

00:40:25.960 And then they're selling a goddamn Glock 19. 0.99

00:40:28.420 Who's producing that? 0.99

00:40:29.100 Why can't we do that, Nick?

00:40:30.260 Yeah.

00:40:30.620 Probably Segura and them.

00:40:35.320 Generally, it is legal to carry a concealed firearm in public under which of the following circumstances?

00:40:40.240 You're an experienced gun handler and know all the safety rules.

00:40:43.260 You are honorably discharged from the military.

00:40:45.760 You are in an unsafe area.

00:40:49.040 Is legal to carry a firearm in public under which of the following circumstances?

00:40:53.900 I'm on guard.

00:40:54.640 I'm in guard.

00:40:55.220 None of the above.

00:40:56.060 Yeah.

00:40:56.480 That's none.

00:40:57.080 I'm in Gardena, bro.

00:40:57.900 I can carry a gun, man.

00:40:58.660 It's cool.

00:40:59.260 Yeah.

00:40:59.480 No, I'm just joking, man.

00:41:00.980 Yeah, it's hard to get a concealed carry license in California, man.

00:41:03.920 It's pretty difficult.

00:41:05.680 L.A. County, nearly impossible unless you know somebody.

00:41:08.160 Right.

00:41:08.720 Wow.

00:41:09.240 Yeah.

00:41:10.080 The first cartridge loaded into a magazine presses against the...

00:41:16.200 No idea.

00:41:19.680 I would go with magazine spring, but I have no idea.

00:41:22.740 Oh, it's follower, that one.

00:41:23.940 The follower?

00:41:24.520 Yeah, the follower is a little piece of plastic or metal that's in front of the magazine spring

00:41:27.820 that pushes up on the cartridge. 0.98

00:41:29.160 That's a dumb question. 0.78

00:41:30.000 That's not even on the real FSA. 0.99

00:41:30.900 Yeah, it's not on the test.

00:41:31.700 Yeah.

00:41:32.540 But these are some of the questions that are on there.

00:41:35.600 Smokeless plowed or black powder, that wasn't on there.

00:41:37.740 Nah, yeah.

00:41:38.760 I feel like this might be an old version of the test or something, but some of the questions

00:41:41.460 are on there, but...

00:41:43.040 Yeah.

00:41:43.440 Do you see any of these that are the actual test?

00:41:46.020 Because I Googled what you...

00:41:47.180 Yeah, a few of them we went through are on the actual test.

00:41:49.320 The gun handle...

00:41:50.040 No, any of these links he's saying.

00:41:51.480 Oh, I'm not sure.

00:41:53.340 Not sure.

00:41:53.680 I actually, like, I owned about more than 10 guns without ever taking the FSC test.

00:41:59.600 Because before, I mean, you can buy guns if you have a hunting license.

00:42:02.460 They just played with the law a little bit now, but you can buy long guns at 18 still

00:42:08.040 now if you have a hunting license.

00:42:10.460 So I was 18.

00:42:11.560 I mean, I got a hunting license when I was like 12, right?

00:42:14.160 But so when I turned 18 with my hunting license, I was able to buy a bunch of long guns.

00:42:17.340 So that's what I did.

00:42:18.280 So I never even took that test until I actually started working there.

00:42:21.520 Wow.

00:42:21.980 Yeah, no idea.

00:42:22.860 So that's just...

00:42:23.580 Because that's a new law, you have to take that test?

00:42:26.540 That test also, when you're 21, you can buy a handgun.

00:42:29.240 That's before.

00:42:30.040 And the hunting license does not apply to handguns.

00:42:32.260 Oh, I see.

00:42:32.820 Weirdly enough.

00:42:33.720 But so I had to...

00:42:34.540 For me to buy a handgun, I had to take that FSC test.

00:42:36.520 And then plus, I mean, I've graded 20 of them before I ever took the test.

00:42:40.020 Do you think that... 0.54

00:42:41.460 Do you think that you could shoot somebody? 0.89

00:42:45.740 Yeah. 0.99

00:42:46.520 Yeah, I think I can.

00:42:47.840 Yeah.

00:42:48.340 Awesome, man.

00:42:49.140 I mean, I grew up hunting, man.

00:42:50.680 And that's... 0.91

00:42:52.120 Where would you shoot them? 1.00

00:42:53.440 Where would I shoot somebody? 1.00

00:42:54.260 Yeah. 0.93

00:42:54.520 Well, it depends, man.

00:42:55.180 Be honest, bro, though.

00:42:56.680 Well, I'll be honest with you, man.

00:42:57.980 If you're in a situation where you have to pull out a firearm and you're going to use 0.89

00:43:02.960 it on somebody, you're shooting to kill. 0.95

00:43:06.160 You're not going to shoot them in the leg. 0.98

00:43:07.640 But if you're shooting someone in the leg, you're in a situation where you have the intention

00:43:12.380 to injure them, where you're trying to stop one of their behaviors by injury.

00:43:16.680 Right.

00:43:17.300 Especially in California and most states, when you're actually going to use a firearm on

00:43:21.440 somebody and you're not law enforcement, you're pulling out that gun.

00:43:24.820 That gun is coming out because your life is currently...

00:43:27.760 Your life will be taken if you don't use this.

00:43:29.980 Right.

00:43:30.320 Or somebody in your house or someone, your family member...

00:43:32.800 Or stepdad.

00:43:33.220 They're going to...

00:43:34.060 Stepdad.

00:43:35.000 Or somebody.

00:43:35.740 No, you're exactly...

00:43:36.540 Somebody in that house or somebody where you are is going to die or going to be grievously

00:43:42.580 injured if you do not use this firearm.

00:43:45.220 So if you're using that gun, you're using it to put an immediate end to the fight.

00:43:50.780 And you have videos, all types of videos of people getting shot 15 times and they're still

00:43:55.500 doing what they're doing because none of the shots are lethal.

00:43:58.280 Well, they might be lethal eventually, but they're not immediately debilitating.

00:44:01.820 Yeah.

00:44:02.020 You got to turn the lights off if you're going to shoot.

00:44:03.560 So you're talking here or here.

00:44:06.960 That's it. 0.89

00:44:07.580 That's where you would shoot. 0.99

00:44:09.220 I'd rather shoot somebody in the chest, I think, because I don't want to shoot somebody 1.00

00:44:12.360 in the face, you know, because I don't want to look at them in their face so fucked up. 1.00

00:44:15.580 Oh, yeah. 0.99

00:44:15.920 And then it's just the back end's blown out.

00:44:17.540 Yeah.

00:44:17.620 You don't want to see that.

00:44:18.720 Yeah.

00:44:18.840 And do you, have you ever seen anyone shoot somebody else?

00:44:30.740 Okay.

00:44:31.060 Well, not like, I've never seen like a, okay, technically, yes, but not in a way where it

00:44:37.080 was like a real lethal wound.

00:44:38.800 I've technically been shot, right?

00:44:41.360 Many, many times.

00:44:42.520 I go hunting, right?

00:44:44.500 I mostly hunt birds because Southern California is the biggest kind of hunting season there

00:44:48.340 is dove hunting.

00:44:49.360 And if you're in these busy fields going dove hunting, there's people on the other side

00:44:52.440 of the field and they're shooting doves and all those pellets are flying in the air and

00:44:55.620 they land on you.

00:44:56.520 Like one time my dad shot me like pretty close. 1.00

00:44:59.200 It stung like a motherfucker. 0.99

00:45:00.620 But yeah, but it was a shotgun shooting tiny little bird shot. 0.99

00:45:03.680 But I was a good, you know, 50 yards away. 1.00

00:45:06.200 So it stung like a motherfucker. 0.99

00:45:07.660 But you know, hey man, accidents happen, especially when you're, you know, whipping birds flying around. 1.00

00:45:11.340 Especially when you're aiming at your fucking son, I bet. 1.00

00:45:13.800 Yeah. 1.00

00:45:14.200 You know, I kind of pissed him off that day, man.

00:45:16.080 Yeah, so I was thinking he kind of just wanted to punish me a little bit.

00:45:19.700 I was kind of at the age where he can't really smack me around anymore.

00:45:22.240 Oh, yeah.

00:45:22.560 So he's just like, oh, I saw a quail over there. 0.98

00:45:25.780 I didn't see that fucking quail, but yeah, I mean. 0.97

00:45:27.900 He gets you a jacket that has four quails on the back of it? 0.99

00:45:30.500 Yeah, dude, no orange on me, man.

00:45:32.680 He's shooting through the bush.

00:45:34.520 Hell yeah, dude.

00:45:35.180 Yeah. 0.99

00:45:36.440 I mean, it sucks. 0.99

00:45:37.600 But if you go dove hunting in a busy field, you will get shot with a shotgun. 0.99

00:45:42.240 Yeah. 0.72

00:45:42.460 I promise you, you will.

00:45:43.840 I like that.

00:45:44.240 I don't have any scars from it, but technically speaking, yeah, I've been hit with a projectile

00:45:48.020 from a firearm, yes.

00:45:48.960 Yeah.

00:45:50.580 Do you think that a lot of the people you've been selling guns to in this recent surge of

00:45:54.660 gun sales has been people that are more on the liberal side of politics?

00:46:01.420 Yeah.

00:46:01.820 I would say yeah.

00:46:02.400 Yeah.

00:46:02.560 A lot of people that I talked to were admittingly, and that's the thing, man.

00:46:09.020 I'm not big on that word liberal because in the class-

00:46:11.560 Yeah, maybe that's not the right word at all.

00:46:12.600 No, it's all right.

00:46:13.300 Just in the classical sense, liberal means like, oh, you believe in the freedom of the

00:46:16.960 individual.

00:46:17.500 Right.

00:46:17.860 Right.

00:46:18.100 Which would be pro-gun.

00:46:19.300 Mm-hmm.

00:46:19.600 So, I mean, yeah, I mean like-

00:46:22.480 Or far, or left-leaning, I would say leftist.

00:46:24.820 Yeah, for sure.

00:46:25.860 For sure.

00:46:26.380 Definitely a lot of that.

00:46:27.500 A lot of people, admittingly, and you can kind of just tell just by the way they look

00:46:31.800 and the way they act, the way they dress.

00:46:32.960 You can kind of figure it out.

00:46:34.400 Same thing with conservatives.

00:46:35.240 You can kind of just point them out.

00:46:36.320 Oh, yeah.

00:46:37.120 For sure.

00:46:38.280 But a lot of them, admittingly, like, oh, I never thought I'd be buying a gun.

00:46:41.300 I never thought I'd be ever doing something like this, but here I am.

00:46:44.500 And a lot of them were upset with themselves.

00:46:46.460 A lot of times, like, oh, first time gun buyer?

00:46:47.880 And I was trying to make conversation because we're doing paperwork.

00:46:49.900 You excited?

00:46:50.540 They're like, nope.

00:46:51.820 And I'm like, oh, why are you here, man?

00:46:53.200 And they're like, I'm just like, they're like, I don't even want a gun, man, but I feel

00:46:55.940 like I need one.

00:46:56.760 Wow.

00:46:56.980 And that's what a lot of people were saying.

00:46:58.760 A lot of people were saying that.

00:46:59.720 Yeah, it's interesting, man, because, I mean, I think it's even like how I felt a little

00:47:02.780 bit.

00:47:02.960 Like, I felt like I wanted to kind of have one for a little bit, but this was definitely

00:47:06.460 the, this, just the fear of the uncertainty of what's going to go on or what could

00:47:11.620 go on.

00:47:12.280 Broke the camel's back, huh?

00:47:13.220 Yeah.

00:47:13.540 There it is.

00:47:14.660 Yeah.

00:47:14.900 I totally understand.

00:47:16.380 I resonate with that and I get it, but that was, that was most people that were buying

00:47:20.600 guns in this big surge, especially here in California.

00:47:23.200 Yeah.

00:47:23.640 New gun buyers.

00:47:25.200 Definitely.

00:47:25.720 First time.

00:47:26.360 First time.

00:47:26.860 Brand new.

00:47:27.340 Never shot a gun before.

00:47:28.120 How long do you think, so this 10 days has been a little long.

00:47:30.020 How long do you think that this thing's going to, I mean, you think it'll be another 10

00:47:32.760 days?

00:47:33.080 Do you think?

00:47:33.840 Nah, they usually clear it up within 24 to 48 hours after the 10 days.

00:47:37.460 Yeah.

00:47:38.040 But people get impatient.

00:47:39.360 Yeah.

00:47:39.520 I mean, I had people like when the big rush yell at me because they didn't know it was a 10 day

00:47:43.420 waiting period.

00:47:44.040 So they're buying the gun.

00:47:44.940 They think they can take it home the same day.

00:47:46.620 And I'll, you know, I'll sell them the gun.

00:47:48.020 I'll go through the whole paperwork and then I'll tell them, oh yeah, so here's your pickup

00:47:50.820 date.

00:47:51.700 And they're like, what?

00:47:53.300 Like, I need to get the gun now.

00:47:55.640 I'm like, yeah, well, okay.

00:47:56.800 I can't do that, man.

00:47:57.620 It's California.

00:47:58.260 You know, 10 day waiting period here in California.

00:48:00.000 10 days. 0.99

00:48:00.760 I had people like, there's not going to be a fucking city in 10 days, man. 0.99

00:48:03.280 I need this gun right now. 0.99

00:48:04.340 Really?

00:48:04.620 Yeah.

00:48:04.920 Oh yeah.

00:48:05.340 I heard a few people say that.

00:48:06.260 Kind of like an Ozark.

00:48:07.080 Have you watched Ozark or no?

00:48:08.120 I watched first season.

00:48:09.180 Yeah.

00:48:09.420 Yeah.

00:48:09.720 It's kind of one of those shows. 0.97

00:48:10.560 I feel like it's like good until you realize it's not any fucking good. 0.96

00:48:14.700 But in the second season, they try to get a baby and they try to get it. 0.96

00:48:18.140 It's like a 10 day waiting period.

00:48:19.460 And the guy's like, no, we need this baby right now, dude.

00:48:22.900 What can you need a baby for an emergency, man? 0.99

00:48:25.200 Fucking it's Ozark, dude. 1.00

00:48:26.500 Yeah. 1.00

00:48:26.880 I was up to some fucking dumb shit. 1.00

00:48:27.840 I need this baby to guard my house, man. 1.00

00:48:30.000 Yeah, basically.

00:48:30.600 Yeah.

00:48:31.020 It really kind of did.

00:48:32.100 Really?

00:48:32.440 Yeah. 0.79

00:48:32.660 It was kind of a part of a weird trade off or some shit.

00:48:34.740 Oh yeah. 0.96

00:48:35.280 I'll give you a baby if you launder this money for me, man. 0.74

00:48:38.440 Yeah. 1.00

00:48:38.960 I'll give you a million dollars, but give me your fucking baby, man. 1.00

00:48:41.900 I mean, yeah. 1.00

00:48:42.360 You basically just listed all the plots.

00:48:44.600 It's like buying a tiger.

00:48:46.260 Yeah.

00:48:46.520 He listed all the plots of season two.

00:48:49.280 Any other questions, guys?

00:48:50.460 Something you guys are thinking about?

00:48:52.620 Are there any people recently you're like, they shouldn't have a gun, but you?

00:48:59.400 Yeah.

00:48:59.900 Yeah.

00:49:00.140 I would say there's some people I feel like, not that they shouldn't have one, but I'm

00:49:04.040 like, they should really, they should really, you know, work on it if they're going to buy

00:49:08.400 a gun, you know?

00:49:09.700 Like they should really work on their skills and their capability of manipulating the

00:49:14.600 firearm before they really get this gun.

00:49:17.560 So I really highly, I mean, I always tell them I highly recommend training, highly recommend

00:49:21.000 when you get the firearm, keep the ammunition away from it and just learn how the gun works.

00:49:25.560 Watch YouTube.

00:49:26.360 It's a huge resource for firearms.

00:49:27.960 If you watch somewhere on the, you know, anything on the internet like that, you can learn a

00:49:31.720 lot just from there.

00:49:32.680 That's where I learned a lot of the information I have about firearms.

00:49:34.880 I learned through the internet or reading books.

00:49:37.660 Look out the gate.

00:49:38.680 You know, I'm coming at you 100, 100.

00:49:41.640 A lot of people don't have that junk in the front trunk when they want to. 0.99

00:49:48.400 They can't get erection. 0.99

00:49:51.600 Sometimes you'll meet a friend, they can't get erection. 0.95

00:49:54.180 You say, what you doing, buddy? 0.90

00:49:55.300 And they won't tell you. 0.98

00:49:56.860 And that's because they have shame about erection. 0.52

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00:51:58.340 They also have, they have, you work at a gunsmithing place?

00:52:06.520 Yeah.

00:52:06.680 I've been there longer than the gun shop.

00:52:07.960 Yes, sir.

00:52:08.160 Okay.

00:52:08.460 And what is that?

00:52:09.280 When you talk about gunsmithing, what is that?

00:52:10.980 So, gunsmithing pretty much entails repairs, modifications, custom builds.

00:52:18.620 Just, I mean, it could be even little things.

00:52:20.020 Mounting a scope onto a rifle.

00:52:21.920 Cleaning guns.

00:52:23.000 So, we do all of that.

00:52:24.380 I'm really like, I really like old guns, military surplus stuff.

00:52:27.640 So, whenever we get old guns in there, that's like really my thing. 0.98

00:52:30.460 But, like Sea War type shit? 0.99

00:52:32.740 Civil War? 0.99

00:52:33.480 Oh, well, yeah.

00:52:34.320 Not too much Civil War.

00:52:35.680 I mean, I like Confederate stuff because it's got a richer history in terms of firearm stuff.

00:52:39.940 You know, they had less of a manufacturing base back in the Civil War.

00:52:44.000 But, a lot of World War II pieces, you know, military surplus stuff.

00:52:49.380 Some World War I stuff, which I really like.

00:52:51.860 Just even old, just like old hunting rifles that are out of production are just cool in general.

00:52:57.640 So, the two guns that I got, one is a Beretta.

00:53:00.060 It's a 9mm, right?

00:53:01.240 Yeah, it's a Beretta M9.

00:53:02.340 And you said it was like one of the most popular.

00:53:04.560 It was issued for law enforcement until when?

00:53:06.740 2018?

00:53:07.540 Huge in law enforcement for a long time.

00:53:09.920 Still is.

00:53:10.460 It was issued to the military.

00:53:11.540 Okay.

00:53:12.460 U.S. Army, Marine Corps, the Navy as well, Air Force.

00:53:15.980 Pretty much the entire aspect of the U.S. military.

00:53:18.780 Yeah, there you go.

00:53:19.540 The Beretta M9.

00:53:21.820 You know, first manufactured in Italy, but the one you guys made in the U.S.

00:53:24.720 Hell yeah.

00:53:25.480 Hell yeah.

00:53:26.000 That's the best way to go.

00:53:27.800 All metal, all steel frame, all steel slide, single double action.

00:53:33.140 Yeah, I mean, it's pretty much, it's the Bruce Willis of guns.

00:53:36.640 I like that, man.

00:53:37.360 And single double action means that you pull the trigger.

00:53:41.380 If the hammer's down, it's a long, heavy trigger pull because that trigger, mechanically speaking, has to pull that hammer back and then drop it.

00:53:47.400 But after the gun fires and the slide works back and then forward again, that's automatically going to push the hammer to the rear.

00:53:53.960 So now it's just a short, easy, light trigger pull just to drop that hammer, and that makes the gun a lot easier to shoot.

00:53:58.780 Yeah.

00:53:58.980 And this is really your basic man's gun.

00:54:03.540 Oh, yeah.

00:54:03.820 You get some men that come in and their arms are almost too weak to hold up a gun and they still, and you still have to sell them a gun?

00:54:09.120 Yeah.

00:54:09.420 I mean, if they want a specific gun, then they got it.

00:54:12.480 I mean, I remember I had a little, I had a while ago, I had a, for the whole rush, I had a, I had like an 85-year-old African-American woman.

00:54:21.840 And she was with a cane, you know, just, just frail.

00:54:25.180 And she came and she's like, young man, I'm looking for a double-barrel shotgun. 0.99

00:54:28.760 Damn. 0.99

00:54:29.260 I was like, yeah, okay, we actually, we got double-barrel shotguns. 0.99

00:54:31.600 I put one in her hands and she's like, oh, it's too heavy.

00:54:34.300 You got something else?

00:54:35.080 Like, it was like, yeah.

00:54:36.560 So I actually got her a little Ruger, like a LCR.

00:54:39.880 It's a polymer frame revolver, super lightweight.

00:54:42.880 She was able to handle it.

00:54:43.740 But there's a lot of misconceptions around guns, you know, but most people's basis of gun knowledge is going to come from the media.

00:54:50.460 It's going to come from movies, video games, TV shows, and they are notoriously bad at giving out accurate information about firearms.

00:55:00.040 Notoriously bad.

00:55:01.180 Have you had people come in and say, I want the gun that's in this game?

00:55:04.600 Yep.

00:55:05.280 That's crazy.

00:55:06.420 Yep.

00:55:06.700 Kids that are just turning 21.

00:55:08.280 What?

00:55:08.760 They're like, they're like, they're like, hey, what is, what's that on the wall?

00:55:11.840 I'm like, oh, that's a Chris Vector.

00:55:13.500 You know, it's a sweet, decked out looking little submachine gun.

00:55:17.220 It's not an actual machine gun.

00:55:18.060 It's a carbine.

00:55:18.600 It's semi-automatic because we're not getting, yeah, there you go.

00:55:21.720 That Chris Vector.

00:55:22.740 Yeah.

00:55:24.420 Let's see that.

00:55:24.920 And it's like, oh, yeah, man, I used to run that thing in Call of Duty, man.

00:55:29.020 I used to run that thing in Modern Warfare 2.

00:55:30.880 Wow.

00:55:31.300 All types of, yeah, or just like, I mean, I had a dude come in there, didn't know anything about guns.

00:55:36.900 He was a rich guy, you know, he came up in a Porsche.

00:55:39.480 He was like, I'm looking for the revolver that Dirty Harry used.

00:55:42.280 Wow.

00:55:42.560 And then Dirty Harry, I'm like, all right, like the one, like, you know, Clint Eastwood used.

00:55:47.160 And he's like, yeah, that's the one.

00:55:48.660 I'm like, all right, it's a Smith & Wesson Model 29.

00:55:50.620 And I hand it to him, but we actually had one.

00:55:52.460 They still make them in commercial production.

00:55:53.780 There you go.

00:55:54.300 44 Magnum.

00:55:55.580 And he was like, yeah, I'll take it.

00:55:57.020 Didn't want to know anything about the gun.

00:55:58.140 Just wanted it because it was in Dirty Harry.

00:55:59.900 Yeah, that's it.

00:56:00.820 So, it's just amazing to me that someone sees it in a video game or something, like, oh, now I've got to have this.

00:56:07.120 Yeah, they just want it.

00:56:07.960 Especially if it's a game from, like, Grand Theft Auto, because you're driving around with that. 1.00

00:56:11.000 Yeah, yeah, on your lap, man, just shooting motherfuckers. 1.00

00:56:14.080 Yeah, that's just how it is. 1.00

00:56:15.840 Do you, have you ever sold a gun that was used in a crime or murder?

00:56:20.780 I wouldn't know.

00:56:21.640 We do get, like, police trade-in guns, and it's not unheard of for police departments to have to pick up guns.

00:56:28.940 This is, I mean, all around the country.

00:56:30.060 They pick up guns in crimes, and then they pretty much clear the crime out, but they still have the firearm that they confiscated off somebody.

00:56:37.760 And then they'll resell it to gun stores, and the gun stores will sell it used for a cheap price.

00:56:41.120 It's really, really popular.

00:56:42.380 So, there's plenty of guns out there that have, I'm sure they have some bodies on them.

00:56:45.800 Like, I got an old SKS, right?

00:56:49.080 Oh, yeah, I've seen it in, I think, in Call of Duty.

00:56:52.920 In SKS?

00:56:53.680 I think so.

00:56:54.260 I don't know, man.

00:56:54.760 It was a rifle used in the Vietnam War a lot.

00:56:57.700 The one I had was manufactured in China, but it's a cool rifle.

00:57:02.560 Dang, yeah.

00:57:03.180 Yeah, and it's an awesome rifle.

00:57:05.200 It's the first gun I ever bought, man.

00:57:06.380 When I turned 18, I bought that thing.

00:57:08.400 And the one I got was a Vietnam bringback. 0.71

00:57:12.320 So, some veteran was in Vietnam, probably smoked some Vietnamese dude, had an SKS, and then took it home when he came back from the war. 0.50

00:57:19.060 Dang.

00:57:19.320 So, who knows what that rifle has seen?

00:57:21.180 You know, yeah.

00:57:21.920 And, I mean, the one I got was made in 1953.

00:57:24.900 So, it's definitely seen something, you know?

00:57:27.160 That was some killing years back then.

00:57:28.820 It's older than my pops.

00:57:29.720 Oh, yeah, man.

00:57:30.560 I mean, that thing was probably, like, you know, early stage of Vietnam War, you know?

00:57:35.400 And they were used fighting.

00:57:37.460 I mean, there's originally a Russian gun.

00:57:39.340 The gun was invented by a Russian inventor, Siminov.

00:57:44.100 But then, you know how the Russians are, you know, they're communists in the Soviet Union.

00:57:47.600 So, all of their designs, after they kind of were, like, declared antiquated, they kind of just spread it around the, you know, the socialist united world.

00:57:55.200 And so, China pretty much got the manufacturing rights to make these, and the Chinese loved them, and they made them in the millions.

00:58:00.840 There's millions of these things around the world right now.

00:58:03.120 You have pictures of African tribesmen.

00:58:05.760 Yeah, we see them a lot with those guns.

00:58:06.600 Oh, yeah.

00:58:07.380 Extended, you know, earlobes, the whole thing.

00:58:09.220 And they're not even wearing Western clothing.

00:58:11.400 And they have an old Chinese SKS over their shoulder. 0.94

00:58:14.660 That's their gun.

00:58:16.140 That's wild.

00:58:16.880 Isn't it interesting, like, so much of that, of the firearms trade that goes on, it's unbelievable.

00:58:23.940 I mean, whatever you think is going on commercially in the U.S., just think under the table internationally.

00:58:29.200 Yeah.

00:58:29.800 Insane.

00:58:30.240 I mean, you have countries that you wouldn't even expect, like HK in Germany, massive firearms producer.

00:58:35.380 They sold, I think, like, 20,000 G3 rifles to Saudi Arabia.

00:58:40.280 And then all of a sudden, they found a bunch of these rifles in the hands of ISIS in Syria.

00:58:46.300 Or they found them in these militia groups, you know, al-Nusra in Syria.

00:58:49.760 And they have all these G3 rifles that were just sent to Saudi Arabia.

00:58:54.020 So there's actually, like, a lot of international organizations that kind of track where these things show up.

00:59:00.000 I mean, there's pictures of, like, the conflict in Syria, the Civil War, where they're driving a Panzer IV from World War II, a German tank. 1.00

00:59:06.780 You know, it's like, where the fuck did they get that shit? 0.99

00:59:09.500 That thing weighs 25 tons. 1.00

00:59:12.080 Where the fuck did they get that? 1.00

00:59:13.280 Dude, there's pictures of fucking ISIS driving old Ford Tauruses as well, dude. 1.00

00:59:16.780 Oh, yeah. 0.98

00:59:17.240 But I'm just saying there's such a, there's such, like, a secondary market that, it's so funny, like, how on the surface would be like, you know, no guns, no guns, no guns.

00:59:25.600 And then if you go and look at how America makes money, one of the ways is through selling firearms to different countries.

00:59:33.400 It's crazy.

00:59:34.180 Firearms is a fraction of it.

00:59:35.860 If you think about the military industrial complex, we're talking weapon systems.

00:59:39.860 I mean, fighter jets, missiles, things that one single F-35, right, Lightning II, pretty much our newest fifth generation multi-role jet.

00:59:49.240 I mean, they're worth fucking billions of dollars, just the whole program itself, and they're sent and they're sold to all these countries in NATO, and, I mean, all these weapon systems just end up in the hands of all types of people.

01:00:01.620 It's, the weapons trade, not just small arms, not just machine guns and rifles and pistols. 0.65

01:00:06.480 Software, too, even.

01:00:07.500 Everything, everything.

01:00:08.760 Intercontinental ballistic missiles, old submarines, ships, everything, everything. 0.96

01:00:12.760 The defense industry internationally, and even under the table, is fucking monumental. 0.96

01:00:18.300 Monumental. 0.91

01:00:19.040 Do you think any guns are unnecessary, like, for normal people to have?

01:00:23.060 Or are you just like, I think everybody should have everything.

01:00:25.600 Everyone should, should be a right.

01:00:27.240 What do you think?

01:00:28.900 Um, yeah, that's tough.

01:00:31.860 Like, you have, in certain states and stuff, given certain licensing, which apparently isn't terribly hard to get,

01:00:39.340 uh, you can get, like, an old Soviet artillery gun, and there's people, private owners that own tanks with live guns in them, 75-millimeter cannons, uh, machine guns.

01:00:51.080 I don't think anyone should be barred from owning those things, but I understand the licensing required to have something destructive.

01:00:59.840 That's what the ATF calls certain things, just destructive devices, quote-unquote.

01:01:03.520 So, and, uh, and these firearms, I mean, not even firearms, but you have these, you have weapons that are devastating.

01:01:11.360 And I, I can understand the logic of, like, yeah, maybe we shouldn't give, you know, like, uh, inner city crime gangs RPGs, right?

01:01:20.960 Right.

01:01:21.820 However, I think if you're, if you're a law, like, a law-abiding owner, and you can use those things responsibly,

01:01:27.860 I don't think there should be limitations on what you can get, especially because it's a slippery slope.

01:01:31.940 I mean, you can see it here in California.

01:01:33.140 Right, but it did, but then also, like, imagine if the guy who, like, shoots up the Las Vegas, you know.

01:01:39.300 Right.

01:01:39.760 If that guy had an RPG, it'd be insane.

01:01:42.360 Yeah, I mean, who knows?

01:01:44.660 I suppose, I mean, it would fire a rocket, right?

01:01:47.120 I mean, he did, he did plenty of damage with, uh, AR-15 anyway.

01:01:50.980 Well, supposedly an AR-15, who knows?

01:01:53.160 I don't know what he, I don't know what he used to, I think a lot of AR-15s is what they say.

01:01:56.420 Yeah.

01:01:57.200 Uh, yeah, so I understand the logic.

01:02:00.440 I don't necessarily agree with it.

01:02:02.480 It's kind of tricky.

01:02:03.760 It's just really tricky.

01:02:04.560 I don't know how I feel about it.

01:02:05.780 Because, so, in addition to the Beretta, what is the other piece of gun that I bought?

01:02:09.160 You bought an AR-15 lower receiver.

01:02:11.320 Yeah.

01:02:11.460 So, what I mentioned earlier is that the only, the only, the only,

01:02:14.040 That's what I got. 1.00

01:02:14.440 Motherfuckers, bro. 1.00

01:02:15.620 Johnny, little bastard. 1.00

01:02:16.860 The only serialized part of that, yeah, there you go. 1.00

01:02:20.120 That's, that's called a stripped lower.

01:02:21.980 Uh, that's what I got.

01:02:22.920 So, that's considered a firearm.

01:02:24.380 It's a piece of aluminum with holes in it, okay?

01:02:26.360 That's a gun.

01:02:27.480 That's a gun.

01:02:27.960 Right, that's considered a gun.

01:02:29.000 That's a gun.

01:02:29.340 So, I had to get, I had to buy this piece in order to be able to have this.

01:02:32.980 Yeah, and the one you, the one you got cost you about 40 bucks.

01:02:36.400 Um, and then now I can build the, have the rest of it built.

01:02:38.920 Every, all the other parts, trigger, internal parts, kits, trigger group, buffer tube,

01:02:43.560 the upper receiver, the barrel, everything you need on that gun, you can order it online

01:02:47.020 and have it delivered to your house.

01:02:48.360 Given you have a little bit of know-how and some simple tools, we'll throw it together

01:02:51.760 for you and you'll have an AR-15.

01:02:53.820 It's not, it's not like a loophole or anything.

01:02:55.060 And what can I do with an AR-15?

01:02:56.980 Uh, shoot stuff.

01:02:57.920 Okay. 1.00

01:02:58.260 Yeah, it's, they're fucking sick, man. 0.99

01:03:00.160 They're, uh, AR-15s are probably the coolest rifles you can get your hands on, in my opinion, 0.99

01:03:04.520 in the United States.

01:03:05.460 I mean, they're kind of like, it's, it's like the, the Ford F-150 of guns, you know?

01:03:11.200 Everyone's, everyone's got one, right?

01:03:12.900 Especially in the country, but.

01:03:14.480 Except for Nick.

01:03:16.980 Uh, yeah, man, they're the most, they're the most popular rifle in the United States.

01:03:20.300 Uh, semi-automatic, shoots a very controllable, easy, easy to use cartridge.

01:03:25.140 AR-15s have been used.

01:03:26.380 How many shoots can I do at once in this, with this?

01:03:28.660 Depends, depends on the size of the magazine you have inside of the gun, but swapping a magazine

01:03:32.920 is not very hard.

01:03:33.680 So, a standard capacity magazine throughout the country is 30 rounds.

01:03:37.020 That's what, like, the military uses on their ARs. 0.97

01:03:39.060 California, they'll limit 10 rounds per magazine.

01:03:41.740 Uh, but, I mean, they make 60-round drum magazines, uh, 100-round drum magazines for them.

01:03:47.920 I'll probably stick with 30 or 60.

01:03:50.240 Right.

01:03:50.720 Well, you'll get 10.

01:03:52.220 Yeah, I'll do 10.

01:03:52.880 Yeah.

01:03:53.480 California, man.

01:03:54.060 Um, yeah, California is...

01:03:56.080 Yeah, you got 10.

01:03:56.960 Yeah.

01:03:57.280 Same thing in your pistol.

01:03:58.020 Your pistol's supposed to hold, uh, what, 15 rounds in the magazine?

01:04:02.680 California, you get 10.

01:04:03.360 10.

01:04:03.960 That's the rule.

01:04:04.720 That's the rule.

01:04:05.380 10 rounds limit for whatever gun in California.

01:04:07.320 I like that.

01:04:08.100 Yeah.

01:04:08.540 That's the thing. 1.00

01:04:09.100 If you can't get it done in 10, you deserve to die, I think. 1.00

01:04:12.860 Fair enough. 1.00

01:04:13.800 You know what I'm saying, though? 0.99

01:04:14.660 Like, if you can't get it done in 10 shots, you fucking... 0.99

01:04:17.700 You know what I'm saying? 1.00

01:04:18.180 You've killed your... 1.00

01:04:18.800 You've fucking shot the guy's wife. 1.00

01:04:20.420 You've fucking killed two animals. 1.00

01:04:22.320 You fucking blew out your fucking bedroom wall. 1.00

01:04:25.040 Knocked out... 1.00

01:04:25.640 Never knocked out every streetlight on your block, man.

01:04:27.500 Yeah.

01:04:27.920 Yeah.

01:04:28.240 At that point, you need to go.

01:04:30.100 You're really the...

01:04:30.960 At that point, it's your turn.

01:04:31.980 Yeah.

01:04:32.580 You're the one really causing the most trouble at that point.

01:04:34.740 Right.

01:04:35.040 I just don't like it because I don't like the government telling me how many rounds they think

01:04:38.120 is enough.

01:04:38.800 Right.

01:04:40.240 Police officers don't need to follow that rule.

01:04:41.940 The military doesn't have to.

01:04:43.320 I mean, I can go to Nevada. 0.99

01:04:44.580 You drive five hours away, and they're 200-round, belt-fed fucking machine guns over there. 0.99

01:04:49.660 You can have that there? 0.99

01:04:50.680 Yeah.

01:04:50.960 I mean, with a machine gun, yeah, given the licensing.

01:04:52.700 Wow.

01:04:53.120 Yeah.

01:04:53.260 But the magazine capacity is not limited in most states.

01:04:56.300 I believe California, I believe Massachusetts, New York, a few other states have magazine

01:05:00.680 capacity limits, Colorado, I think, too.

01:05:02.720 See, it's funny because I believe that people...

01:05:04.460 I believe that some semi-automatic weapons people shouldn't have, you know?

01:05:07.900 I believe that people shouldn't be able to just rattle off 700 rounds.

01:05:12.240 Right.

01:05:12.280 But then here I am buying a semi-automatic weapon.

01:05:16.700 You're buying two semi-automatic weapons.

01:05:18.360 Yeah, two.

01:05:18.700 And one's a quite capable rifle, and the other one's a very well-loved and well-used semi-automatic

01:05:26.180 pistol.

01:05:27.340 Jesus Christ, dude.

01:05:30.080 No, man.

01:05:30.640 Hey, they're cool, man.

01:05:31.760 I mean, once they're all done, I'm taking you out, and we're going to the range.

01:05:36.120 All right, man.

01:05:37.060 Take you guys, too, man.

01:05:37.960 It'll be a good time. 0.98

01:05:38.840 I just don't want to fucking shoot somebody or myself, dude. 0.99

01:05:41.180 No, man. 0.99

01:05:41.560 Come on.

01:05:42.160 Dude, we're not going to shoot anybody.

01:05:43.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:05:43.560 We'll be fine.

01:05:44.080 Can I go on a separate day than Theo?

01:05:46.440 Oh, yeah.

01:05:46.920 Don't.

01:05:47.280 We'll go the next day, man.

01:05:48.020 Don't worry.

01:05:48.540 We'll leave Theo out there.

01:05:49.560 We'll just get him the next day, man.

01:05:50.980 He'll be fine.

01:05:51.640 Don't worry.

01:05:51.940 Do you have a feeling in your life that you'll ever shoot someone? 1.00

01:05:56.500 I pray to God that I fucking don't. 0.99

01:05:58.840 Do I have a feeling I would? 1.00

01:06:00.840 I don't think so.

01:06:01.480 Like, really, what does your gut tell you?

01:06:03.120 What does my gut tell me that I might? 1.00

01:06:05.000 Damn, man. 0.99

01:06:05.720 Well, I would say... 1.00

01:06:08.320 Oh, fuck. 1.00

01:06:08.800 That's tricky. 1.00

01:06:09.840 Given the situation now, I would say it's not terribly unlikely.

01:06:13.660 I knew this old dude, and he shot some people that broke into his house, and he was telling

01:06:20.100 me about it. 0.99

01:06:20.480 He said it was fucking terrible. 0.99

01:06:21.940 But I really hope I don't want to, but... 0.99

01:06:24.660 No, I don't think I will, man.

01:06:26.060 I don't think...

01:06:26.520 I live in a fairly secure complex.

01:06:29.880 I don't think anyone's...

01:06:30.560 The only situation I see myself doing that is, like, someone trying to kill me in my house,

01:06:35.320 and that's pretty unlikely.

01:06:36.480 Yeah.

01:06:36.620 So, I don't think so.

01:06:39.000 But, I mean, I like guns for the...

01:06:41.200 I like recreational shooting.

01:06:42.800 Like, it's one of my favorite hobbies in the world.

01:06:45.000 I go hunting.

01:06:46.360 I love it, man.

01:06:47.100 I love it.

01:06:47.500 I shoot archery, too.

01:06:48.420 It's awesome.

01:06:49.440 But...

01:06:49.720 Yeah, I want to get into some more of these types of things.

01:06:51.180 You know, that's why I'm excited to get out to the range.

01:06:53.680 I mean, I did notice immediately whenever you started to teach me, even in the store,

01:06:57.060 about how to load the gun, unload the gun, like the steps to go through.

01:07:01.120 By the end of that, I felt five times more confident, even just picking the gun up.

01:07:07.940 Oh, yeah.

01:07:08.480 And, like, I just felt a lot more like, okay, now I have some education that goes along with this thing.

01:07:12.840 It's not just an errant thing that could just kill me at any moment.

01:07:16.080 Like, now I understand, okay, this is how it behaves.

01:07:18.840 This is how I need to use it.

01:07:21.540 These are the protocols I need to go through.

01:07:23.720 Exactly.

01:07:24.240 So it was really interesting to me just to notice how immediately when I had that education, it really adjusted the way that the gun felt to me.

01:07:32.580 It makes a world of difference, man.

01:07:33.880 People talk about accidental shootings and then how dangerous guns can be in the home, but if you have the experience and the knowledge and the know-how and the confidence to utilize that firearm confidently, there's no chance of it injuring you or anyone else.

01:07:49.340 Because if you followed all the proper protocols, it's an inanimate object just like anything else.

01:07:53.360 It's going to hurt you as much as this glass bottle will.

01:07:55.900 It makes no difference.

01:07:57.340 It's just an object.

01:07:58.240 The only thing that gives it the capability of being lethal is somebody either making a mistake or someone using it with malintention.

01:08:05.140 That's it.

01:08:06.340 That's it.

01:08:07.280 Do you feel like if as the fear of the pandemic and stuff goes away that you'll see a resurgence of people selling their guns back?

01:08:14.240 I think so.

01:08:14.960 Yeah, I think so.

01:08:15.640 I think a lot of people are just buying them and they don't know what the hell they're going to do with them.

01:08:18.260 And I think as soon as they have the opportunity to get rid of it, I think the used gun market after all this is over is going to be booming.

01:08:23.660 And where does the used gun market send guns to?

01:08:26.320 Gun stores.

01:08:27.380 Gun stores.

01:08:27.700 Oh, they'll sell it.

01:08:28.400 I mean, there's a lot of forums online where they're, oh, hey, I'm selling this gun.

01:08:31.080 We'll do a private party.

01:08:32.020 Meet at this gun store.

01:08:32.860 They do the private party.

01:08:33.840 And that's it.

01:08:34.820 A lot of times people are like, hey, I just want to get rid of the gun.

01:08:36.580 I don't care about finding someone willing to buy it.

01:08:38.580 So they sell it to gun stores and then the gun stores will resell them for profit.

01:08:42.420 Have you ever sold a gun to a guy with like teardrop tattoos by his eye or not?

01:08:45.300 Yeah.

01:08:46.180 I have.

01:08:46.640 Yeah.

01:08:46.940 Hell yeah.

01:08:47.500 Yeah.

01:08:47.780 I mean, hey, if they pass the background check, who am I to say that they can't own the gun?

01:08:50.780 Right.

01:08:51.400 You don't really have that jurisdiction.

01:08:52.920 No, I don't.

01:08:53.540 Well, I have the ability to choose who I sell a gun to.

01:08:57.560 I can say, no, I'm not going to sell you a gun.

01:08:59.560 But I mean, I'm not trying to cause those issues.

01:09:01.820 I'm not going to try to be stuck up.

01:09:03.420 And that kind of ability, that kind of mindset can lead to people being, you know, using that to pretty much, you know, be racist or something.

01:09:12.880 Right.

01:09:13.000 If they see someone, oh, I don't, let's say I don't like, I don't like Asian people. 1.00

01:09:16.060 Right. 0.93

01:09:16.460 Oh, I'm not going to sell any Asian people a gun. 1.00

01:09:18.640 That's crazy, man. 0.98

01:09:19.480 Right.

01:09:19.760 That's crazy.

01:09:20.320 If they have the ability to buy a gun legally.

01:09:23.960 That's not your responsibility.

01:09:25.400 Hell no.

01:09:25.800 Right.

01:09:26.020 It's not.

01:09:26.600 Yeah.

01:09:26.840 You're just working at a place that sells guns.

01:09:28.820 Yeah.

01:09:29.220 Yeah.

01:09:29.640 Yeah.

01:09:30.100 But like you said, I mean, if somebody's high, you can not sell them a gun.

01:09:33.420 Yeah.

01:09:33.600 That, that, that comes down to, that just comes down to the law.

01:09:35.920 If I, if I can literally smell marijuana, I can get in trouble for selling them or even serving them or even putting a gun in their hands.

01:09:42.260 If they smell like marijuana, which I think is crazy, but that's just the rules.

01:09:47.320 Have you ever had a person where you're like, you had to ask them, like, are you planning on killing somebody with this gun?

01:09:52.660 No, I never had to do that.

01:09:54.020 Would you do it if you felt compelled to do it?

01:09:56.260 Oh, yeah.

01:09:56.720 Yeah.

01:09:56.880 I'm, I'm, I'm pretty, I'm pretty outspoken at the, at the story of a lot of people that are kind of shy that work there.

01:10:00.900 But yeah, I mean, I'm, you know, I like to crack jokes there and stuff.

01:10:03.840 It's, it's a gun store, man.

01:10:04.800 Like how seriously can you take your job?

01:10:06.560 You know, I'm just, I'm having a good time.

01:10:08.060 So yeah, I felt way more machismo once I got in there.

01:10:11.760 They got all kinds of stuff, little buckets you could sit on.

01:10:14.700 They got those, all type of fishing stuff, nets, you could catch stuff.

01:10:19.080 They had gloves for all type of different things you could do with gloves.

01:10:22.840 Oh, I mean, we have a whole fishing section.

01:10:24.620 Oh, it was good.

01:10:25.280 All types of fun stuff.

01:10:26.120 Yeah.

01:10:26.520 You ever been to Bass Pro Shops?

01:10:28.480 Yeah. 0.99

01:10:29.220 That's the fucking, that's the mecca right there, man. 1.00

01:10:31.240 That's the fucking place, dude. 1.00

01:10:33.280 Yeah, they're real nice. 1.00

01:10:34.160 You can do whatever you want there.

01:10:35.840 Fellas? 1.00

01:10:37.060 I'm good.

01:10:38.120 Johnny wants to talk.

01:10:38.980 I know Johnny.

01:10:39.460 No, I just have one more.

01:10:40.540 This might be a crazy question.

01:10:41.960 Has anyone ever tried to rob your store or have you ever heard of anyone trying to rob

01:10:46.600 a gun store?

01:10:47.580 I've asked, I've asked that question to my manager and apparently our location was robbed

01:10:51.080 a long, long time ago.

01:10:53.560 Dude is just like, there's a lot of gun stores, especially more like family, not family oriented,

01:10:58.000 but like smaller businesses where the people in there are armed and most of those places

01:11:02.500 don't get hit.

01:11:04.260 Turner's is a corporation and due to, I guess, insurance purposes, they don't want us to be

01:11:07.740 armed.

01:11:08.480 So we're not armed in the store.

01:11:10.580 Wow.

01:11:11.020 That was going to be my last question.

01:11:12.300 Yeah.

01:11:12.580 Well, we're not, we're not armed in the store at all over there.

01:11:15.520 So how quickly could you reach for an arm though?

01:11:18.720 We can get a gun, but I mean, we don't have loaded magazines or ammunition on us, nor

01:11:22.900 would we terribly be inclined to retaliate considering if someone's in there ready to rob a gun store, 0.98

01:11:29.220 they probably don't give a fuck and they probably got guns ready to rock and roll. 0.97

01:11:32.420 So if we're not, if we're in a position where we're already at a deficit just due to the 0.97

01:11:36.500 fact that we don't have loaded weapons on us, retaliation is probably not the best

01:11:40.700 idea.

01:11:41.520 What would you do then?

01:11:44.280 Run.

01:11:44.840 Run. 0.97

01:11:45.100 Get the fuck out of there. 1.00

01:11:45.640 Why would someone rob a gun store for a gun if they have a gun? 1.00

01:11:48.740 Well, they get, well, they, yeah, they have a gun, but then they can just go in there

01:11:52.200 and steal a hundred guns.

01:11:54.040 More guns.

01:11:54.300 Yeah. 1.00

01:11:54.580 They fucking break in the glass and they, if they steal a bunch of guns, then fuck, man. 1.00

01:11:57.900 They, I mean, that's a lot of money. 1.00

01:11:59.400 Is there a method of that micro stamping you think that could be, could work?

01:12:04.900 Cause some of it does seem a little bit archaic when you think about it, that you have this

01:12:08.420 gun, you have this bullet that they, that there isn't a way to definitely track and know

01:12:14.960 what's going on, you know?

01:12:16.720 Um, just because we have so much technology now, right?

01:12:20.720 I can, I can see micro stamping maybe working in the way where you will be at, you'll have

01:12:26.380 the ability to track the gun.

01:12:27.580 However, practically speaking, um, that would, that would significantly increase the price

01:12:32.240 of the firearm.

01:12:32.920 Right.

01:12:33.260 Okay.

01:12:33.780 And it's very easily worked around.

01:12:36.200 I mean, you, I mean, it's really easy to scratch out the serial number of a gun, right?

01:12:40.340 It's really easy to scratch out a mic, like something like micro stamping.

01:12:43.400 Just right.

01:12:44.860 Yeah.

01:12:44.980 And it even says that, that the micro stamping wears out, that it's not, it just wears out

01:12:48.680 with youth.

01:12:49.340 Right.

01:12:49.520 So imagine if I intentionally try to get rid of it or if I just replaced the part that

01:12:53.100 has the micro stamping on it.

01:12:54.120 Right.

01:12:54.440 Just buy a replacement firing pin.

01:12:56.140 Yeah.

01:12:56.300 I'm just wondering what the, you know, what the technology is that will allow you to,

01:13:02.480 yeah, that will solve the problem.

01:13:03.580 That will get it done.

01:13:04.440 You know, micro stamping seems like it's like an attempt at that.

01:13:06.980 Yeah.

01:13:07.620 Um, I'm just trying to just think, um,

01:13:11.720 um, do you feel like everyone should be able to own a gun?

01:13:21.040 Yeah. 0.98

01:13:21.440 Unless you're mentally incompetent or a hardened criminal, I would say yes.

01:13:26.000 I would say, yeah, everyone should have the ability to, unless you're, I mean, just completely 0.95

01:13:29.920 irresponsible.

01:13:31.340 Yeah.

01:13:31.760 I mean, it's, it's, I don't necessarily see it as a right that's, that's given to us.

01:13:35.500 It's a right that a human being should have inherently.

01:13:37.820 I'm not a religious people, religious guy.

01:13:39.900 People say like, Oh, these rights, these rights are God given.

01:13:42.060 Right.

01:13:42.340 I'm not religious at all, but I feel like, you know, I believe people.

01:13:45.780 Yeah.

01:13:46.020 God never had a gun really.

01:13:47.420 Yeah.

01:13:47.620 I feel like people should have inherent rights, man.

01:13:49.580 Like if you're just a human being, you have the, you know, you have freedom of speech.

01:13:52.700 You're allowed to express yourself.

01:13:53.560 Right.

01:13:53.940 Right.

01:13:54.220 You're allowed to vote politically.

01:13:55.980 You're allowed to, you know, not be enslaved.

01:13:58.780 Right.

01:13:59.180 You're just a free human being.

01:14:00.480 You should be able to have a tool to protect your life and the life of people around you.

01:14:04.980 Yeah. 0.50

01:14:05.240 So I, yeah, I think if, unless you're completely mentally incompetent or, or a hardened, dangerous

01:14:11.920 criminal, then yeah, everyone should have the red tone of gun. 0.73

01:14:15.000 We have a world.

01:14:15.880 So we have a world that has guns in it.

01:14:18.200 Do you wish that we had a world that somebody has just never invented guns?

01:14:22.820 And since I like guns so much, no.

01:14:24.900 Yeah.

01:14:25.100 However, admittingly, things would be, I would say less lethal if, if there was no guns, but

01:14:33.580 for a much longer period than guns have ever existed, there's still been massive war and

01:14:38.620 conflict coming out of the classical era.

01:14:40.580 But people love killing each other.

01:14:41.640 Exactly.

01:14:42.060 It doesn't matter if you got a gun or not.

01:14:43.100 Yeah.

01:14:43.340 It doesn't matter.

01:14:44.280 I mean, people, I mean, they would ride horses with, you know, lances on them and go and stab 0.90

01:14:48.220 people to death.

01:14:49.040 Yeah.

01:14:49.460 Thousands would die in single battles.

01:14:51.140 It doesn't, it doesn't make a difference.

01:14:52.720 Yeah. 0.80

01:14:52.840 People love to kill each other.

01:14:53.660 They have, I mean, even the mayor of Baltimore announced that, had to ask people to stop

01:14:57.540 killing each other so they could save the hospitals for COVID patients, for Corvid.

01:15:04.220 Please stop shooting people.

01:15:06.040 Yeah.

01:15:06.280 Yeah.

01:15:06.520 That's really what he said.

01:15:07.860 So yeah, people love to, yeah, Baltimore mayor begs residents to stop shooting each other

01:15:13.240 so hospital beds can be used for coronavirus patients. 1.00

01:15:16.960 So, I mean, that's real shit. 0.99

01:15:18.060 I also think it was, who came out, I think it was the mayor of Dallas. 1.00

01:15:20.940 He was saying that, oh, like, like criminals, like chill.

01:15:24.560 Criminals take it easy because like, like we all just want to go home at the end of the 1.00

01:15:28.420 day.

01:15:28.680 So just relax for now. 0.83

01:15:29.800 I thought it was pretty ridiculous.

01:15:31.260 Yeah. 0.83

01:15:31.420 Just take a break.

01:15:31.980 Criminals.

01:15:32.280 I actually, before this, I was having Easter brunch with a friend of mine.

01:15:35.880 His stepfather is a, a California highway patrolman.

01:15:41.120 He's been at this for like 30 years.

01:15:42.720 Yeah.

01:15:42.820 Brendan's stepdad actually.

01:15:44.520 And he was telling me that crime is down except for auto theft.

01:15:51.900 Auto theft is the only crime that's up.

01:15:53.960 That makes sense.

01:15:54.440 A lot more cars just parked now.

01:15:55.740 Yeah.

01:15:56.040 Yeah.

01:15:56.220 Ready to go.

01:15:56.680 And I guess if you're a burglar, you got to do something.

01:15:58.300 You still got to work and you do cars.

01:15:59.600 Now you do cars.

01:15:59.800 You still need money, man.

01:16:00.620 If you're, if you're, if you're living that life.

01:16:02.300 You got to get out there.

01:16:03.440 Yeah.

01:16:03.740 For sure.

01:16:04.040 Well, man, it was interesting.

01:16:04.760 Yeah.

01:16:04.860 I just found it so interesting, Nico, that I, cause I came in and you just knew so much about

01:16:08.060 weapons and, and I was like, man, this is kind of fascinating.

01:16:10.960 And I was kind of, I was like everything.

01:16:12.860 I was excited to be buying a gun.

01:16:14.220 I was scared to be buying a gun.

01:16:15.520 Kind of.

01:16:16.220 Yeah.

01:16:16.440 I was kind of glad I finally felt like at least confident and adult enough within myself

01:16:21.040 to be like, okay, I can have a gun in my house.

01:16:22.920 Right.

01:16:23.320 And I'm not going to shoot a buddy or something for fun.

01:16:25.500 You're doing anything crazy.

01:16:26.560 Yeah.

01:16:28.820 So yeah.

01:16:29.500 And then you said, man, there's just so many people buying guns right now.

01:16:32.100 And it was just really interesting to me, you know, in a state that, you know,

01:16:34.700 a lot of times you hear a lot of people like no guns, no guns.

01:16:37.520 Yeah.

01:16:37.760 And then this type of, uh, we get into this core of it and everybody's gunning out.

01:16:42.460 Oh, oh yeah.

01:16:43.420 I mean, just the, just the numbers are mind blowing.

01:16:46.160 Just the numbers are mind blowing.

01:16:47.120 There's going to be a lot more guns out there.

01:16:48.340 Yeah.

01:16:48.940 Just get ready for it.

01:16:50.020 Bottom line.

01:16:51.100 Bottom line.

01:16:51.620 Do you sell a lot of, uh, Kevlar and stuff like that with them or often or no?

01:16:55.380 No, we don't sell any body armor there.

01:16:56.840 Uh, we do have like some plate carriers that we sell there that allow you to insert a

01:17:01.880 plate armor inside of the, uh, the vest, but we, we're not a, we're not an armor retailer.

01:17:07.160 Um, I don't really know if that's up for private sale in California.

01:17:10.700 I'm not, not entirely sure, but.

01:17:12.700 And what about flares, nades, anything like that?

01:17:15.540 Yeah.

01:17:15.780 I mean, I wish we sold grenades, man.

01:17:16.920 That'd be sick. 0.91

01:17:17.440 But now we don't, uh, explosives not going to happen.

01:17:21.360 That, that'd be sweet though, man.

01:17:22.600 We actually talked about grenades when you came in.

01:17:24.080 I remember that.

01:17:24.540 That was pretty funny.

01:17:25.000 Oh yeah, we did, man.

01:17:26.260 No, no, no, no flares.

01:17:27.620 Oh yeah.

01:17:27.860 Grenades.

01:17:28.580 Grenades are cool, man.

01:17:29.340 I was in, I was in Cambodia and I was with my, my cousin. 1.00

01:17:32.520 Oh, you could throw a fucking grenade over there. 1.00

01:17:33.960 I bet. 1.00

01:17:34.180 Oh yeah.

01:17:34.620 Yeah.

01:17:34.740 They had like, they were advertising, man.

01:17:37.240 We're in this little, we were in this little tiny, uh, we're in this little tiny village

01:17:40.220 called Koh Kong.

01:17:41.100 It's on this river by the Thai border.

01:17:43.820 And they were there and they were, and they, you guys were asking us like, oh yeah, but

01:17:46.560 they saw our backpacks.

01:17:47.380 We got like military style backpacks.

01:17:49.100 You know, we're, no one's in the military who I'm with, but they were like, oh yeah,

01:17:52.900 you like guns.

01:17:53.580 You like guns.

01:17:54.120 And we're like, yeah, yeah, we like guns.

01:17:55.940 And they're like, you go like, come on.

01:17:57.360 We have machine gun.

01:17:58.260 We have RPG. 0.95

01:17:59.700 And I'm like, let's go shoot.

01:18:00.740 And we didn't end up doing it.

01:18:02.060 I kind of regret that.

01:18:02.820 I kind of wish, I kind of wish that we did, but they were like, oh yeah, you can throw

01:18:05.860 grenades and everything. 0.99

01:18:06.940 Damn. 1.00

01:18:07.240 Yeah. 1.00

01:18:07.380 Yeah.

01:18:07.480 But Cambodia had a massive, you know, genocide.

01:18:10.540 They had a civil war.

01:18:11.280 Oh, there's guns.

01:18:11.940 Yeah. 1.00

01:18:12.100 Shit's just sitting around. 1.00

01:18:13.080 Yeah. 1.00

01:18:13.140 They got it everywhere, man.

01:18:14.060 Yeah.

01:18:14.340 That is crazy. 1.00

01:18:15.100 Cambos will fucking shoot anything, dude. 1.00

01:18:16.780 How about this, bro? 1.00

01:18:17.560 You pull up a grenade detonation on YouTube.

01:18:22.200 People are shocked always when they see this.

01:18:24.200 People think nades go big.

01:18:26.040 They really don't go that big.

01:18:27.980 Yeah. 0.94

01:18:28.100 You know, a basic nade don't really fucking do that much. 0.94

01:18:30.840 Yeah. 0.93

01:18:31.160 We were just talking about that, man.

01:18:32.200 It's just, it's just really, it's just really a pop, man.

01:18:34.160 Like a lot of people see grenades in movies, you know, they see an action movie and they

01:18:37.640 throw a grenade.

01:18:38.200 It's a giant fireball, man.

01:18:39.480 It just blows up.

01:18:40.360 But it's really a pretty small amount of explosives.

01:18:43.920 Not that one.

01:18:44.640 That one takes too long.

01:18:47.320 I've watched that one before.

01:18:49.780 They're not terribly lethal.

01:18:52.880 I mean, well, they're not, they're very lethal, but they're not like massive explosions.

01:18:59.880 Hand grenade compilation? 0.53

01:19:01.260 Okay.

01:19:01.560 Let's try that.

01:19:01.980 Yeah.

01:19:02.140 Check it out. 1.00

01:19:02.340 That's some Kurdistan shit, man. 1.00

01:19:10.860 Look at that. 1.00

01:19:11.860 Yeah.

01:19:12.120 Yeah. 1.00

01:19:12.180 Damn, dude, you gotta throw it further than that dude. 1.00

01:19:28.320 You threw it at four feet. 1.00

01:19:29.740 What a freak. 1.00

01:19:31.280 That guy sucks, man. 1.00

01:19:33.520 There's Cambodia for you, man. 1.00

01:19:34.560 We have to run back.

01:19:35.640 You know, it used to be eight seconds on a grenade.

01:19:47.540 I believe now it's four seconds.

01:19:49.040 Oh, yeah?

01:19:50.160 Because people, yeah, it was too much time.

01:19:53.280 The early ones.

01:19:54.200 I want to say it was during like a French war or something.

01:19:56.660 They were thrown back, huh?

01:19:57.760 Yeah.

01:19:58.440 Yeah.

01:19:58.840 That's so interesting how they could make it, you know, like the time like that.

01:20:02.980 How do they even build that?

01:20:04.320 I don't, it doesn't, I don't understand.

01:20:06.980 Yeah, it is really interesting.

01:20:08.000 Once you pull that pin.

01:20:09.020 Yeah.

01:20:10.480 The first, the first like, well, like really widespread used grenades. 1.00

01:20:15.140 Here's a guy, fucking white dude using it. 0.99

01:20:16.980 Sorry to interrupt you. 1.00

01:20:17.640 Is that Danny McBride?

01:20:22.740 That's what it would have, those guys are probably in Cambodia.

01:20:24.840 That guy threw it left-handed.

01:20:27.280 He's obviously right-handed.

01:20:28.480 Do not do that. 1.00

01:20:29.420 That bitch. 1.00

01:20:31.520 But look how small that is. 1.00

01:20:32.800 It's really smaller than you think.

01:20:34.480 Yeah.

01:20:34.820 I mean, that is just a little blip.

01:20:39.380 Yeah, but in terms of the timing, like the first grenades that were really used widely

01:20:44.480 was in World War I, man.

01:20:45.760 It was called the Mills Bomb.

01:20:47.160 The British used them.

01:20:48.880 And they had an internal fuse that would kind of burn inside the grenade.

01:20:52.440 And that would make it go off.

01:20:53.720 So you would pull the pin, a safety pin, and then you would throw it.

01:20:57.160 And there's like a little hinge, right?

01:20:58.340 That's how most grenades use.

01:20:59.200 What is it called?

01:20:59.740 Let's look it up.

01:21:00.360 A Mills Bomb. 0.86

01:21:01.100 Mills Bomb?

01:21:01.780 Yeah.

01:21:03.500 It was like the first like widely used grenade in combat.

01:21:06.980 I mean, there's earlier examples of like more primitive grenades.

01:21:10.100 But the first like widely produced and, you know, issued grenade in World War I.

01:21:17.280 Wow.

01:21:17.540 Look at that.

01:21:18.320 Yeah.

01:21:18.720 Mills Bomb.

01:21:20.100 That's that old school hitter, daddy.

01:21:21.920 Oh, yeah.

01:21:22.500 A 36 meter Mills Bomb right there. 0.63

01:21:27.140 There it is, man.

01:21:27.820 And so then all those pieces would – so how does this one work?

01:21:31.760 Yeah.

01:21:32.020 So there's – you'd pull that pin and then there's actually a little striker.

01:21:35.560 After you pull the pin, you let go of the grenade.

01:21:37.060 And that would allow like a spring-loaded striker to hit a fuse.

01:21:41.100 And that fuse would burn for, I mean, approximately I think five seconds.

01:21:45.120 And after that, it would just go off.

01:21:47.300 There's a little bit of high explosive in there.

01:21:48.900 And then pretty much how they cut those shapes into the actual body of the grenade,

01:21:53.840 the explosive power would break the grenade fragments on those cuts.

01:21:58.800 And that would be your fragmentation.

01:22:00.940 Early grenades were really used more for taking enemy positions than they were for really like outright killing them.

01:22:09.280 So they would throw them.

01:22:10.000 They weren't terribly lethal in terms of fragmentation.

01:22:12.520 They would just throw them, especially inside of bunkers in World War I down in the trenches.

01:22:16.740 Everyone would be dazed and confused because of the grenade that went off,

01:22:19.340 blowing everyone's ears out and making them blind.

01:22:21.420 And then they would run in there with bayonets and really finish the job.

01:22:24.040 That was really how it was done back in the day.

01:22:25.780 Nade city, dog. 1.00

01:22:27.120 So I'm telling you guys, keep your shit together, dog. 1.00

01:22:29.020 Y'all get naded out. 1.00

01:22:30.960 And World War I, man, they had like German stormtroopers when they were attacking enemy trenches.

01:22:35.100 A lot of times they wouldn't even go in with a rifle when they were attacking enemy position.

01:22:38.240 They had these giant sacks that they would tie up to their shoulders and they would just be full of grenades.

01:22:42.580 They would have 12 grenades on them and then like a club.

01:22:45.500 So they would go in there at night raiding trenches, throw 12 grenades,

01:22:49.720 and then after all the grenades go off, they'll run in there with a club and start beating people to death.

01:22:53.620 Yeah, it was crazy. 0.95

01:22:55.180 Crazy.

01:22:55.500 Man, it sounds like that movie Black. 0.99

01:22:59.580 Talk Down.

01:23:00.620 No.

01:23:01.420 Sheep.

01:23:02.480 No.

01:23:02.880 Near.

01:23:04.160 No.

01:23:05.600 Delilah.

01:23:06.540 Black Swan.

01:23:07.960 No.

01:23:08.240 Oh.

01:23:09.300 Black with the big fish in San Diego.

01:23:11.380 What's that called?

01:23:12.160 Black Fish.

01:23:12.960 Black Fish.

01:23:13.840 Black Fish.

01:23:14.320 Niko, man, thanks so much.

01:23:17.120 Any more questions, guys?

01:23:19.020 I think that's it.

01:23:20.200 Yeah, man.

01:23:20.760 It looks like we're in a new environment where a lot of people are getting armed.

01:23:26.360 Yeah.

01:23:26.700 Hey, man.

01:23:28.620 Firearms, man, they're a good way to go.

01:23:30.360 It's a great hobby.

01:23:31.600 It's a great way to protect your life, man.

01:23:33.300 And as long as you use them safely, they're really just a lot of fun.

01:23:37.100 Do you think I could be a safe user of firearms?

01:23:39.440 I wouldn't sell it to you if I didn't think you would, man.

01:23:41.380 Right on, man.

01:23:41.760 To be perfectly honest with you, man.

01:23:43.220 Cool.

01:23:43.980 Respect.

01:23:44.400 Thanks, dude.

01:23:44.820 I appreciate that, dude.

01:23:45.420 Yeah, of course, dude.

01:23:46.320 Good to know I can do that.

01:23:48.380 All right.

01:23:48.780 Thank you so much for being here, man.

01:23:49.820 I appreciate it, man.

01:23:50.560 Yeah, of course, dude.

01:23:51.500 Thank you guys for having me.

01:23:52.440 Yeah, you bet.

01:23:52.980 Oh, wait.

01:23:53.200 One more thing I want to ask you about.

01:23:54.320 Yeah.

01:23:55.260 So there was a video you were showing me of what other type of hunting and outdoor activities

01:24:01.240 you like to do.

01:24:02.920 Well, here in L.A., man, I do a lot of, I mean, the season just ended, but I do a lot

01:24:07.720 of scuba diving.

01:24:08.400 That's something I'm really into.

01:24:09.480 So my cousin and I and my dad and my uncle, we'll go out.

01:24:12.260 So we got a lot of scuba gear and we'll go down and in different spots around like

01:24:16.240 pretty much the west side out in the ocean and we go either out in a little boat or we

01:24:19.240 go out there late at night, you know, kind of Navy SEAL style and we go there and pick

01:24:22.800 out lobster.

01:24:23.360 So we go out there with a lobster bag.

01:24:24.560 We wear Kevlar gloves, flashlight, and you're there and they come out at night to feed.

01:24:29.440 And where are you at?

01:24:30.280 Where are you located at here?

01:24:31.320 Right now?

01:24:31.900 Where do you do it?

01:24:32.920 No, when you do this?

01:24:33.740 Oh, Palos Verdes, around the marina, Redondo, up in Malibu.

01:24:37.340 Just pretty much the whole bay, whole bay.

01:24:39.560 And then you go out there late at night and underwater, it's completely pitch black down

01:24:42.760 there.

01:24:43.020 So all the lobsters caught coming out and we have bright flashlights.

01:24:45.320 We're all, you know, we're fully scubaed out.

01:24:46.940 So we're about, you know, 30, 40 feet underwater by the rocks, even sometimes even shallower.

01:24:51.420 And then you grab, you grab these big bugs, man.

01:24:54.020 And they're trying to fight you and they start grabbing and kicking and then you stuff

01:24:56.800 them in a bag and you fill up the bag, you know, limit seven per day.

01:25:00.380 So we'll fill them up and then bring them back up.

01:25:02.760 And we have, we have some good cookouts.

01:25:04.640 We also go like, I do a little bit of fishing out in like a few rivers.

01:25:08.740 We go crawfishing.

01:25:09.640 It's a lot of fun.

01:25:10.420 So it's similar to lobster.

01:25:11.500 You just get a lot more of them and they're smaller.

01:25:13.260 And, oh yeah.

01:25:13.940 And then, and then, yeah, other than that, do hunting.

01:25:16.560 And that's a lot of fun.

01:25:17.340 Mostly birds, but do some deer hunting too.

01:25:19.600 It's a lot of fun.

01:25:20.300 Yeah, that lobstering is so interesting, man.

01:25:22.740 Go out there at night. 0.81

01:25:24.320 Oh yeah, it's pitch fucking dark, dude. 0.88

01:25:25.780 The first time I did it, I was freaking out. 0.99

01:25:27.280 I was like, damn. 1.00

01:25:27.640 And you're, and you're down there with these ancient fucking crustaceans. 1.00

01:25:31.280 These things have been on this planet way longer than we have, you know, and they're 0.99

01:25:35.400 not used to motherfuckers going down there with scuba tanks and a thousand lumen flashlight. 0.96

01:25:40.260 And they, so they freak out and they, you grab them up and you put them in a bag, man. 0.98

01:25:43.960 Do you use a weapon or anything?

01:25:45.260 You just grab them with your hand, grab them with your hands, man.

01:25:47.060 Kevlar gloves.

01:25:47.720 You just grab them here.

01:25:48.980 They're California spiny lobster.

01:25:50.340 So they don't have claws like you'd like they do on the East coast.

01:25:52.620 They're just covered in spikes.

01:25:53.940 So if you grab them with just your hands, they'll, they'll cut you up.

01:25:56.480 Oh Jesus.

01:25:56.800 So you got with a Kevlar glove.

01:25:58.200 So you stuff them in a bag and they, I mean, they'll squeeze onto your hand real tight.

01:26:01.680 They're actually surprisingly pretty strong, but, and if you get a big one, you know,

01:26:04.720 you got to go two hands.

01:26:05.520 So you grab two hands and you have to pretty much hold it onto your chest cause they're

01:26:08.560 trying to kick away from you.

01:26:09.580 Like a baby almost. 0.67

01:26:10.340 Yeah.

01:26:10.540 And then your, your dive buddy pretty much has to come and like help him get it off and

01:26:13.440 get into the bag.

01:26:14.640 And it's crazy, man. 0.99

01:26:15.440 You get, if you get, if you land a big, if you land a big lobster, man, it's, it's fucking 0.96

01:26:19.140 wild. 0.94

01:26:19.500 That's a lot of food there, man.

01:26:20.640 So I've, I've gotten a lot of lobster this year.

01:26:22.780 Sounds good, huh?

01:26:23.780 Oh yeah.

01:26:24.340 And then you cook them up, man.

01:26:25.240 I cook them up Aussie style.

01:26:26.280 I throw them on the grill, just butter and seasoning, man. 0.99

01:26:28.740 It's fucking good. 0.99

01:26:30.080 Get Gianni's little soft ass out there to catch one or ride one even. 1.00

01:26:34.180 Yeah. 0.98

01:26:34.420 I mean, if you guys are down out, down to come out in the, in cold water, man.

01:26:36.880 Yeah.

01:26:37.040 We'll get some lobster.

01:26:38.000 We'll get some bobbies out there. 1.00

01:26:38.780 I'd like Gianni to get out there and ride a lobster around.

01:26:40.560 Hell yeah.

01:26:42.520 Well, other than that diving, man.

01:26:43.680 I mean, I was diving in the Philippines, saw a whale shark.

01:26:46.760 I mean, I did another dive around a bunch of sardines.

01:26:49.580 So I love diving, man.

01:26:50.420 That's another, that's another like big hobby of mine, man.

01:26:52.340 I love, I love scuba diving.

01:26:54.080 Yeah.

01:26:54.360 I got to get more of that outdoor motif going on.

01:26:56.280 I used to have it when I was young because we spent so much time outdoors, but you know,

01:26:59.780 the city will really change you.

01:27:01.160 Oh yeah.

01:27:01.560 I mean, it kind of, kind of kills your soul a little bit.

01:27:03.640 Yeah.

01:27:04.020 Oh, definitely, man.

01:27:04.880 Yeah. 1.00

01:27:05.400 Well, now I can kill other people's souls because I have two fucking guns, bro. 1.00

01:27:08.120 That's all I'm saying, son. 1.00

01:27:08.840 Now you can fucking take souls while you lose yours, bro. 0.99

01:27:11.500 Nico, thanks so much for coming, bro. 1.00

01:27:12.780 All right.

01:27:12.980 Thanks, dude.

01:27:13.460 Thanks for having me.

01:27:13.900 I'm just falling on the breeze, and I feel I'm falling like these leaves.

01:27:19.220 I must be cornerstone.

01:27:24.560 Oh, but when I reach that ground, I'll share this peace of mind I found.

01:27:29.840 I can feel it in my bones.

01:27:34.220 But it's going to take a little time for me to set that parking brake

01:27:42.680 And let myself unwind

01:27:45.620 Shine that light on me

01:27:49.620 I'll sit and tell you my stories

01:27:55.340 Shine on me

01:28:00.340 And I will find a song

01:28:04.520 I will sing it just for you

01:28:07.940 And now I've been moving way too fast

01:28:15.480 On the runaway train

01:28:16.880 With a heavy load of my hand

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01:28:38.240 And as always, I'll be joined by the voices in my head

01:28:41.740 You have three new voice messages

01:28:44.620 A lot of people are talking about Kite Club

01:28:47.620 I've been talking about Kite Club for so long

01:28:50.420 Longer than anybody else

01:28:52.060 So great

01:28:52.840 I think Tom Hanks just butt dialed me

01:29:12.220 Anyway

01:29:12.700 First rule of Kite Club is

01:29:14.640 Tell everyone about Kite Club

01:29:16.340 Second rule of Kite Club is

01:29:18.280 Tell everyone about Kite Club

01:29:20.520 Third rule

01:29:21.320 Like and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts

01:29:23.940 Or watch us on YouTube, yeah?

01:29:26.560 And yes, don't worry

01:29:27.600 My Brad Pitt impression will get better

01:29:29.640 Thank you

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This Past Weekend with Theo Von - April 13, 2020

A Gun Man ｜ This Past Weekend #273

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